Guest blog by Bruna Kadlez, Associate Fellow of St Ethelburga’s In the middle of 2012, the battles and bombs reached Aleppo, once Syria´s second largest city and the country´s economic centre. In that time, Myria Toukmaji was a senior student of Fine Arts at the University of Aleppo and a…

His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje, is the head of the 900-year-old Karma Kagyu Lineage and guide to millions of Buddhists around the world. Currently 33 years old, the Karmapa made a dramatic escape from Tibet in the year 2000. Travelling the world, the Karmapa teaches traditional…

Justine Huxley, CEO of St Ethelburga’s writes about the experience of hosting a group working with deep adaptation, a map for navigating climate breakdown:  “Yesterday we returned from our second pilot retreat exploring deep adaptation.  Sharing a stunningly beautiful location in Sussex with buzzards, falcon and roe deer, we spent…

Dr Justine Huxley, CEO of St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace, reflects on deepening societal divisions, climate breakdown and conflict, highlighting the need to move beyond denial, and tailor our responses for the coming storm.    Over the last 6 months, the fractures in our world seem to be…