by Amelio Collins
The world held its breath in 2018 marked by intensifying climate reports, rising global temperatures, and a growing sense that time was running out...
Breathing Together: Gender, Climate, and the Personal as Political
No Neutral Ground: Gender, Climate, and the Cost of Complicity
by Kehkashan Basu
We can no longer afford neutrality. Not when women and girls are being denied their fundamental human rights. Not when the rights of Mother Earth and all her creatures to exist, regenerate, and sustain life are being stripped away.
Grassroots Women: A Deep Potential of Love, Community and Power Toward the Better World We Need
by Ann Smith
I first heard the phrase ‘personal is political’ in 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya, at the UN Third World Conference on Women. African women came in waves; they walked huge distances, traveled by buses, trains, and planes to demand their voices be heard. It was a breakthrough moment to witness for the first time a grassroots global women’s movement.
Healing Division in Our World Through Oneness
by Faith Spencer
Today’s world is fragmented. Most U.S. adults tend to view life through a lens of political party affiliations and “us versus them.” There’s an evolutionary basis for this. In prehistoric days, loyalty to one’s own group (“us”) helped ensure survival, as did a skeptical and distrusting attitude about outside groups (“them”).
Whose Knowledge Counts? Gender, Climate and the Politics of Evidence
by Maurice A. Bloem, Andrés Martinez, and Nora Khalaf-Elledge
Climate change did not arrive in the Arctic through policy frameworks or global summits. It arrived through memory. Vera Solovyeva is an Indigenous Sakha woman from a small village in the Sakha Republic…
From Seattle to the Sierra Huasteca: Building Relationships via a Community-Engaged, Jesuit Research Partnership
by Amanda Heffernan
Since the summer of 2024, I have had the privilege of partnering with Radio Huayacotla, a Jesuit-founded indigenous community radio station in the Sierra Huasteca of Veracruz, Mexico…
Divine Connections
by Angela Weber
As a reward to myself for reaching a mature age, I returned to my studies. I took a specialization course on third sector management, and then completed a Master’s degree in Anthropology all with the objective to…