My friend John Elwood, climate expert/activist and theologian, has a Substack account. Today's post is about Trump's executive order of...

In light of the – not optimistic – scenarios that lie before us, those who do not sink into despair want a Plan. What are we going to do?...

This book is called “Life After Doom”. But what does “doom” mean? Its roots lie in the medieval concept of “law” and “justice”. A...

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that...

It is a great temptation nowadays to respond to the “outrage of the day”. (Just in the last week free speech and due process rights have...

“The world has been ending off and on for almost all of recorded history….” Mathematician and collapsologist B. Sidney Smith, in How to...

Those struggling with addiction are familiar with the Serenity Prayer, which is often used to close Alcoholics Anonymous meetings:   God...

We left you last chapter with a question: you may wonder if McLaren is too negative about Western civilization. Is there nothing that...

We return to our summary of Brian McLaren's Life After Doom: Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart . To read previous chapter...

Joanna Macy, Ph.D, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. She is a respected voice and activist in peace, justice...

Brian McLaren grew up in the Plymouth Brethren community, a very conservative Christian group. From his childhood, he was taught that the...

After the shock of confronting reality and responding with the instincts for survival, belonging and meaning, grief can hit us. Grief,...

On this New Year's Day, 2025, a reminder from The Many that we are here to love. Everything and everyone. Drawing on indie pop and gospel...

The pivotal chapter in Life After Doom  is the 2nd chapter, “Welcome to Reality”, in which McLaren sketches four possible scenarios for...

Brian McLaren posits that a process has been set in motion by humans  that, unless some revolutionary change in thinking and behavior...

Brian McLaren has been thinking and writing about the Christian faith and how the faith as we have received it needs to change for many...

Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass , did an interview recently with Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee of Emergence...

Lowell Bliss calls COP29 a “whitewashed tomb”.

It's American Thanksgiving today. Here is a Thanksgiving Address of the Haudenosaunee First Nation People. Haudenosaunee is the common...

From Braiding Sweetgrass  by Robin Wall Kimmerer "The Windigo is the legendary monster of our Anishinaabe people, the villain of a tale...