Fighting Climate Change with Faith

Fighting Climate Change with Faith

Dekila Chungyalpa is on the forefront of a new movement to bring together two powerful tools in the fight against climate change: science and faith. Through the Loka Initiative at UW–Madison’s Center for Healthy Minds, Chungyalpa is encouraging religious leaders to...
Interior States, by Meghan O’Gieblyn

Interior States, by Meghan O’Gieblyn

Meghan O’Gieblyn brings something more than a wicked sense of humor and a keen critical eye to her debut collection of essays, Interior States. Homeschooled in Michigan by evangelical Baptist parents, O’Gieblyn later studied at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After...
Little Faith, by Nickolas Butler

Little Faith, by Nickolas Butler

Here in western Wisconsin, pretty much everyone knows author Nickolas Butler—this reviewer included. The appeal of Butler’s writing is not found just in his Northwoods focus, but also in deftly drawn characters that remind us of our friends and neighbors. In Little...
Good Ancestors

Good Ancestors

My friend Henry Lickers, the Environmental Science Officer in the Department of Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, gives a great talk on seven-generation thinking. An ancient philosophy of the Haudenosaunee people widely embraced by many other cultures,...
More Spit, More Fire

More Spit, More Fire

January 5, 2010 • “Trusting Self and Universe” As the adage has it, journeys begin with decisions. In my case, the decision is to combine the Jewish mandate for tikkun olam (“repairing the world,” in Hebrew) with an awareness that we must spend...