All too often today, at least in the United States, “spirituality” is juxtaposed to “religion” as an alternative. “Spiritual but not religious” has become a cliché. It often becomes individualist, self-serving, and separated from concerns for justice and peace in the public world.
/ January 8, 2015
In a time of global crisis we need leaders who care about the whole world and think in terms of what is good for the whole. We need world loyalty.
/ January 8, 2015
The more clearly we think about positive possibilities, the more strongly we hope for this outcome, and the more attractive the prospect becomes, the more we will invest in thought and in practices that have a chance of bringing these prospects to fruition.
/ January 8, 2015
In the Cartesian view, to attribute feelings to these animals was to commit the “pathetic fallacy.” Even today, the industrial production of meat takes no account of any subjective experience on the part of cows, pigs, and chickens.
/ January 8, 2015
Professors of ecology were among those who . . . . challenged us to give up our dualistic thinking.
/ January 8, 2015
The ecological crisis is a real world crisis, not an abstract one. To improve the world often requires asking questions that are not the property of one academic discipline or another.
/ January 7, 2015
Whitehead is distinctive, if not unique, in making ecological relations primary in the interpretation of reality.
/ January 7, 2015
Los Angeles "has become, of all things, a leader in sustainable water management..."
/ December 7, 2014
There's a message of hope embedded here.
/ December 5, 2014
"It seems that the art takes the threat out, becomes more humanistic, more...it's more questioning..."
/ December 5, 2014
To be crazy is definitely not to be stupid. In many ways we have been collectively brilliant. But brilliant people can be crazy.
/ November 25, 2014
Does hard-fought justice at the individual level help lay the groundwork for LGBTQ involvement on behalf of the Earth?
/ November 2, 2014