“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work –
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.” – Wendell Berry
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January 10, 2022 Over the last 8 years working in the environmental space, I’ve seen (and felt) climate and environmental despair up close. It hung in the air in my grad program. It showed up in the gaps between words; in the heavy silences that came when we discussed “the future” – the world’s or…
As a student of religions and ecology, the times I’ve spent in the tropics have afforded me a special affection for these places. While my own affections cannot compare to those of someone tied to a place by blood or birth, I’ve come to deeply appreciate the tropics for their role in ecology, religion, and…
During a time of crisis of modern industrial civilization, we are each called to renew our sacred connection with Earth, with God, and with one another. In 2017 I cofounded an organization called the Sacred Ecology Forum , which runs programming in NYC and online to support individuals’ journey of discovery and activism around spiritual ecology.…
Allegra Lovejoy 