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
It’s Time to Reclaim
the Apocalypse
By Rev. Chelsea MacMillan
What comes to mind when you see or hear the word “apocalypse”? Catastrophe? Collapse? Zombies? Lately, for me, it’s been the images from Australia of baby kangaroos burned to a crisp and thousands of people stranded on a beach, surrounded by fire. For others, it’s the slow dismantling of our democracy. With the climate crisis intensifying and political turmoil escalating around the world, the apocalypse seems to be in the collective consciousness more and more.
Tornado at
Nomad’s End
By Eric D. Lehman
Letters to
Edward Abbey
By Burt Bradley
The Climate & The Cage:
On Mass Extinction &
Mass Incarceration
By Theodore Richards
Find the Bigotry
By Gint Aras
The Blank Page and
With Each Breath
By David Norling
3 Poems
By Linda M. Rhinehart Neas
Be in the Conversation,
Not the Fight
By Heidi Bar
MeToo Squared:
Breaking Silence
By Meta Commerse
Inherited Thought
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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