Journey of the Universe is a scientific, philosophical, spiritual, and poetic offering for those seeking to understand the dynamic unfolding story in which we find ourselves. You can learn about it through readin ght ebook, watching the movie, listening to a podcast, or taking a course.
Read MoreAt a time when everything we love seems to be at risk, Joanna Macy offers a kind of road map for this unique moment in human history when we must come alive to our truest power, to "look straight into the face of our time," and to participate in the Great Turning. What is the Great Turning? It is, as Joanna describes it, the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining one.
Read MoreFor people living in the Arctic, climate change is hacking away at their foundation. It drives storm surges, washes out roads and clogs rivers with sediments. It produces sinkholes and triggers landslides capable of altering the topography and tilting houses. The climate crisis is even seen by some as a form of environmental racism — a problem created down south and suffered up north. Susan Nerberg, from Broadview.org headed up north to witness these dramatic changes.
Read MoreKrista Tippet from The On Being Project, interviews Jane Goodall. Goodall’s early research studying chimpanzees helped shape the self-understanding of our species and recalled modern Western science to the fact that we are a part of nature, not separate from it. From her decades studying chimpanzees in the Gombe forest to her more recent years attending to human poverty and misunderstanding, she reflects on the moral and spiritual convictions that have driven her, and what she is teaching and still learning about what it means to be human.
Read MoreIn this podcast from The On Being Project with Krista Tippet, Krista speaks with one of her beloved teachers, Ellen Davis, as they ponder the world and our place in it, through sacred text, with fresh eyes. We’re accompanied by the meditative and prophetic poetry of Wendell Berry, read for us from his home in Kentucky. If you are interested in how our Biblical text connects to the environmental movement, here is a wonderful exploration of farming, scripture, and how we are bound in a sacred relationship with our earthly home.
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