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indigo: the color of grief

indigo is thejoy and lament of ahuman beingtheologianfather fashioning new ideas about the divinewithin the painfulloss of his daughterwithin the constraints of his own intelligencewithin the constraints of what religionhad… Read More »indigo: the color of grief

On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics by O'neil Van Horn

Climate change is here. Its ravaging effects will upend our interconnected ecosystems, and yet those effects will play out disproportionately among the planet’s nearly 8 billion human inhabit­ants. On the… Read More »On the Ground: Terrestrial Theopoetics and Planetary Politics

Value, Beauty, and Nature: The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Much of early environmental ethics was born out of the belief that the ecological crisis can only truly be solved by overcoming a pernicious worldview that limits all intrinsic value… Read More »Value, Beauty, and Nature: The Philosophy of Organism and the Metaphysical Foundations of Environmental Ethics

America's Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours by Michael A Flannery

This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869-1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at… Read More »America’s Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours

Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity Divine Involvement through Uncontrolling, Amorepotent Love in an Evolutionary World

What are the things that God values in the creative process? How does one define God’s activity in such a world? How is God’s involvement different from a contingent–what this… Read More »Macroevolution, Contingency, and Divine Activity: Divine Involvement through Uncontrolling, Amorepotent Love in an Evolutionary World

The Power of the God Who Can't God Always Does Everything God Can Do by Russ Dean

In a world that values power above all else, we need to rethink God. It’s not just better athletes and bigger engines, but weapons of mass destruction, assault rifles, lethal… Read More »The Power of the God Who Can’t: God Always Does Everything God Can Do

Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker Parallels between Woolf’s Fiction and Process Philosophy

Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels Between Woolf’s Fiction and Process Philosophy introduces Virginia Woolf as a nondualist and process-oriented thinker whose ideas are, despite no direct influence, strikingly… Read More »Virginia Woolf as a Process-Oriented Thinker: Parallels between Woolf’s Fiction and Process Philosophy

So Much to Love, So Much to Lose by Mary Elizabeth Moore

So Much to Love: So Much to Lose explores the vibrancy of love, mottled with loss and the threat of more loss. The poetry arises from the natural world and… Read More »So Much to Love, So Much to Lose

Nondualism An Interreligious Exploration

The time has come for nondualism. As a fundamentally unifying concept, nondualism may seem out of place in an age of rising nationalism and bitter deglobalization, but our current debates… Read More »Nondualism: An Interreligious Exploration

The Not-Yet God Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole by Ilia Delio

We are a species between axial periods. Thus, our religious myths are struggling to find new connections in a global, ecological order. Delio proposes the new myth of relational holism;… Read More »The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, and the Relational Whole