February 8th 2020
Climate collapse, omnicide, and racial injustice: Witnessing the burning of our world
Guest blog by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Ph.D., author of ‘Spiritual Ecology, the Cry of the Earth’. The bush fires raging across Australia have given climate crisis a new word: omnicide. Rather than just ecocide, our deliberate destruction of the natural environment, omnicide, images a crime “we have previously been unable to…
July 24th 2019
His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje’s message to young people: The time is now!
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…
June 26th 2019
Deep Adaptation: Washed up on a beach, sober
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…
May 29th 2019
Climate and conflict: Preparing for the storm
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…
