WE ARE ALL CONNECTED.

By Pando Populus / December 22, 2021

Pando Populus Board Member Rev. Ed Bacon recently spoke with the Zen Buddhist priest Rev. angel Kyoto williams about Pando and contemporary issues.

By Pando Populus / March 6, 2021

Rilke speaks of the gardener’s participation in the Universe's Mysteries this way: “In spite of all the farmer’s work and worry, he can’t reach down to where the seed is slowly transmuted into summer. The earth bestows.”

By Bill Vitek / December 30, 2020

All throughout, trees outside my window stood firm and accompanied me by extending and waving their branches and invited me to listen to the circular rhythm of life. “Stay put where you are planted,” the trees reminded me.

By Sr. Teruko Ito, MM / December 30, 2020

In this fascinating discussion, two Pando thought leaders, John B. Cobb, Jr. and Ed Bacon, sat down together over Zoom to talk about Pando Theology and what it means.

By Pando Populus / October 3, 2020

In this post Sr. Teruko Ito, MM offers a brief reflection on the coronavirus, Mother Earth, and what the blooming cherry blossoms might be able to teach us.

By Sr. Teruko Ito, MM / April 9, 2020

Ronald Phipps generously shared this poem with us, in honor of our Common Home, our Mother Earth, on Mother's Day.

By Ronald Preston Phipps / May 11, 2019

According to theologian Tom Oord, we need a revolution. One that isn't just social and political, but is spiritual and religious as well. One that believes creation and all creatures are intrinsically valuable.

By Thomas Jay Oord / February 8, 2019

Every so often a culture undergoes a radical re-assessment of its primary operating assumptions. It happens rarely and slowly, because such re-imaginings are considered highly dangerous and disruptive. At their most disruptive they can alter reality, which, according to Bill Vitek, is precisely what ecospherism has done.

By Pando Populus and Bill Vitek / September 2, 2018

In this far-ranging and inspirational speech for a meeting of women religious in Monrovia, CA, John Cobb discusses major influences that have shaped our current situation and the alternative vision of Pope Francis in Laudato Si’. He concludes with ways that Pando at Maryknoll might incarnate integral ecology.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / July 25, 2018

In this biographical reflection John Cobb responds the following: “At what point in your life did you decide ‘enough is enough’ and put it all on the line? What was it that caused or inspired you to make the change? How did you respond?”

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / June 7, 2018

I had long known that the ideology of the individualistic separate self was a delusion and in fact societal suicide, but in Pando we have a living organism to show us our alternative to a separateness which is not sustainable.

By Ed Bacon / May 21, 2018

As storytellers who hold the power of global media dissemination, we have an opportunity to contribute to and change the conversation around a host of issues, including immigration, the environment, gender and racial justice, and so many others.

By Rebeca Méndez / May 3, 2018

Pope Francis’ bold clarion call in Laudato Si’ is passionate but also thoughtful and undogmatic in exemplary ways. Even while summonsing the best conclusions and consensus of the scientific community, there is a tone of humility and a recognition that knowledge is always partial and emergent.

By Pat Beiting / November 1, 2017

The “eternal rest” of which some speak would, I suspect, be hard for Vern to take.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / August 28, 2017

My expectation and intention is that in this odyssey, new epiphanies will take place and that the relationships developed on the journey will bear fruit in surprising ways.

By Ed Bacon / August 7, 2017

“Abba” is an Aramaic term for something like a dear father or daddy. It’s baby talk. It’s as if Jesus recognized that the way a parent offers herself in service is warp and woof in the very fabric of the universe. 

By Pat Beiting / July 27, 2017

My guess is that if you were not keeping on, at least to some degree, you would not be reading this piece. Perhaps we are all fools, but let’s think about it.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / January 25, 2017

To understand that we live in a world in which relationships are more fundamental than tiny, individual bits of matter is revolutionary in its implications.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / January 5, 2017

Mark Dibbens is a professor of management at the University of Tasmania in Australia, where he focuses on the Philosophy of Management—a field with compelling relevance to ecological studies and environmentalism. Pando Blog editor Kevin Madden spoke with Mark over Skype in August.

By Pando Populus / September 9, 2016

Be bold. Get out. Let go. Make stuff. Bet small. Move fast.

By Pando Populus / July 7, 2016

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.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / July 4, 2016

Francis and King on Earth

By Pando Populus / July 2, 2016

The drawings come out of my own frustration with the rhetoric of saving the earth...

By Pando Populus / June 9, 2016

We can know God as liberator rather than controller.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / 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.”

By Pando Populus / 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.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / April 14, 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.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / January 19, 2016

The common denominator of our winter religious observances is bringing much-needed light where only heat is being generated.

By Ignacio Castuera / December 24, 2015

Instead of modernizing, China should go directly to what we call constructive postmodernism, based on the philosophy of organism, rather than the modernist philosophy of mechanism.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / November 11, 2015

Selected poems.

By Ronald Preston Phipps / November 11, 2015

A fresh wave of life rolls on our shores The grand outcry of stop halt enough

By Pat Patterson / October 22, 2015

Nordhaus operates out of economic thinking that is strongly individualistic in its assumptions. He does not seem to understand the difference between taking the market as the instrument of solving our problems and putting forward different goals altogether.

By Pando Populus / October 10, 2015

A world oriented to wealth will never be sustainable.

By John B. Cobb, Jr. / September 24, 2015

The tree and I are looking at one another closely. The tree does not move. It simply remains here with me. The tree is wiser than I am, more of a survivor.

By Pando Populus / September 1, 2015

Like Rev. King, Pope Francis is calling for radical nonviolent global revolution.

By Pando Populus / August 12, 2015

The distinction of Pando Populus lies in our commitment to a worldview that displays the profound interconnectedness and mutual dependence of all the entities that make up our world.

By Pando Populus / August 12, 2015

My argument is that thinking that leaves subjects out of the picture not only ignores the fundamental reality, but also does practical damage.

By Pando Populus / July 20, 2015

Our knowledge of the microscopic world has exploded. For machines, without human programming, to “communicate” and “sense” does indeed sound “almost magical.”

By Pando Populus / July 7, 2015