Ecology – Page 3

A Landscape of Lived Religion in Nepal

Posted on December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 by Chris Crews

This is the first in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya I recently returned from a month of fieldwork and research in Humla, the northwestern district of Nep... Read More

“There is no such thing as Palestine!”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 28, 2014November 26, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

“You can’t teach me anything about Europeans,” once commented the deputy mayor of Jerusalem. Europeans had killed his father. “You can’t teach me anything about Palestinians.” Palestinians... Read More

“You are an ambassador”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 18, 2014November 16, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

We drive along the barbed electric fence that surrounds the Israeli settlement of Har Gilo. We are headed to the Walajah valley of the Palestinian territory. The valleys are deep and lush with pine ... Read More

The Beginning of a Settlement — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 10, 2014November 9, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

Mahmoud’s family lives one Palestinian hill over from a newly-forming illegal Jewish settlement. Six Jewish settlers arrived about a year ago with tents and made a primitive campsite. All year they ... Read More

“Come and see, then go and tell”–Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on November 5, 2014November 4, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

The Tent of Nations is an organic farm on a long narrow strip of Palestinian land that has held its deed since 1917, through four occupations: Turkish, British, Jordanian, and Israeli. It is placed in... Read More

“Just Tell Our Story” — Dispatch from Palestine

Posted on October 29, 2014October 29, 2014 by Jenn Lindsay

We met Shirim at her family’s olive grove plot. It falls just outside the Betar Illit settlement. More accurately, it falls on the entire hill but the settlement imposed itself right on top of the f... Read More

First Steps: A Christian’s Perspective on Ecotheology

Posted on October 15, 2014October 14, 2014 by Christi Mallasch

Everyone knows about dinosaurs. I mean, dinosaurs are cool. For a species of animal that hasn’t been around several million years, they have quite the legacy. We still go to see them in museums. Kid... Read More

Equality For All But Atheists

Posted on October 2, 2014October 1, 2014 by Wendy Webber

A couple days before the historic People’s Climate March in New York City, I was approached on the street by a woman who was putting up fliers about the march and who asked me if I was planning on p... Read More

Ancestors and the Earth

Posted on September 30, 2014September 29, 2014 by DeShannon Bowens

Religions for the Earth recently held a weekend conference in New York City at Union Theological Seminary. The purpose was to make people aware that climate change and our environment are social justi... Read More

Our Fine Feathered Friends

Posted on September 26, 2014September 25, 2014 by Jason Tippitt

I’ve never been much of a wildlife enthusiast, mainly because viewing wildlife entails going outside, and outside is where the things that make me sneeze live. (Note: Indoors is the other place ... Read More