Re-imagining is a place for people who believe that the stories of the Modern world no longer sustain us, bringing us to brink of catastrophe – ecologically, economically, spiritually. Our troubles cannot be solved merely through technology, or even politics; rather, we need to re-imagine what it means to be human. We seek new stories, new poetics, new ideas – and we put our ideas and stories into action. This work requires the wisdom of those at the margins, and by those with the courage to imagine a new world. Click here to learn more.
Featured Articles
“Gilgamesh, Where Are You
Hurrying To?”: Coronavirus and
Humanity’s Search for Immortality
By Theodore Richards
Among the surprising joys of the pandemic has been reading, with my six- and four-year-old daughters, a children’s version of The Epic of Gilgamesh. Perhaps four-thousand years old, the Mesopotamian epic is among the oldest surviving religious texts. And yet it remains remarkably relevant.
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Tornado at
Nomad’s End
By Eric D. Lehman
Letters to
Edward Abbey
By Burt Bradley
One, Two, Three
By Heidi Barr
Which Normal Do
We Long For?
By Gint Aras
It’s Time to Reclaim
the Apocalypse
By Rev. Chelsea MacMillan
The Blank Page and
With Each Breath
By David Norling
The Climate & The Cage:
On Mass Extinction &
Mass Incarceration
By Theodore Richards
Two Catholics Meet
Over A Campfire
By Michael Garrigan
MeToo Squared:
Breaking Silence
By Meta Commerse
Step out
By Mike Keating
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Re-Imagining Education
Empowering educators to take a deeper look at the stories told in our schools and to re-imagine them in transformative and
nurturing learning spaces.
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