I proposed that we view Western history, after the fall of Rome, in terms of three periods distinguished by the deepest level of loyalties and the ways people understood themselves: Christianism, nationalism, and economism. Perhaps economism might now give way to "Earthism." Let's work for that.
/ July 4, 2016
Francis and King on Earth
/ July 2, 2016
The drawings come out of my own frustration with the rhetoric of saving the earth...
/ June 9, 2016
We can know God as liberator rather than controller.
/ April 26, 2016
Residents and visitors breathe dark, smoggy air in the cities, and partly because the problems are so serious, China is committed to work for “ecological civilization.”
/ April 15, 2016
For me and my fellow Whiteheadians, the need to keep this kind of thinking alive was intensified by the global environmental crisis. The victory of value-free research disciplines has rendered universities more part of the problem than part of the solution.
/ April 14, 2016
The breaking wave of media attention surrounding Pando is, I believe, a positive sign.
/ February 28, 2016
We who seek an ecological civilization have a chance. The tide may be turning toward supporting the public interest. Perhaps DEMOCRACY has a future.
/ January 27, 2016
There is danger that King’s assassination will achieve its goals more fully than the crucifixion of Jesus attained its goals. This is because the image of King has been defanged even more successfully than that of Jesus.
/ January 19, 2016
One can hardly question that national sovereignty is being surrendered to the corporations.
/ January 11, 2016
We are all indigenous to this Mother Earth. We are not her failed experiment. That is not what we are. We are her immune response.
/ December 30, 2015
The common denominator of our winter religious observances is bringing much-needed light where only heat is being generated.
/ December 24, 2015