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Engaged Spirituality: Stories of Religious Resilience, Inspiration and Pursuing the Common Good

Edited by Ken Chitwood (Bloomsbury, 2026) Read More

“We Save Us” – 2025 Trends to Watch in Religion and Society

CRCC 2025 trends focus on the wildfires affecting Los Angeles County and what will be a multi-year recovery effort. Across the various issues, a central theme emerged: Solidarity. Read More

Konda Mason: Growing rice in Louisiana is a path to justice for Black farmers

Ms. Mason is a leader in these changes, adopting some practices common to Asian Buddhism and others that reflect her African heritage. Chief among the latter: prioritizing community, honoring ancestors, and embodying spiritual engagement by working for social and political change. Read More

Environmental Justice and Spiritual Exemplars

This story map is best viewed on the Arcgis website on a computer. Read More

Andreas Kornevall: Swedish Ecologist Revives Old Norse Myths and Rituals to Tackle Environmental Crises

Ironically, today, both the ash and the elm are suffering, plagued with disease and critically endangered. That humanity’s original ancestors are under threat is a potent metaphor for Andreas Kornevall, a Swedish-British ecologist and educator who is devoted to bringing the wisdom of Old Norse myths and rituals to bear on contemporary life. Read More

Gopal Patel: An ‘Old-school Hindu’ Takes on the Future of Climate

At the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal in December, Patel will work to galvanize faith-based groups around biodiversity — the variety of life on Earth — which he said often gets drowned out in the larger climate conversation.  Read More

Jenifer Colpas Fernández: Young Colombian activist brings light to the displaced communities

A number of these improvements are the work of Tierra Grata, a nonprofit founded in Cartagena in 2015 to bring essential services to people in remote areas of Colombia. Tierra Grata’s co-founder and CEO Jenifer Colpas Fernández, 32, who started developing the idea for the organization a decade ago, had to leave her native Colombia to recognize its problems — and to see that there were solutions. Read More

Kumu Hina and Walter Ritte: ‘A very Hawaiian place’

Even if de-occupying the entire state of Hawaii is a nearly impossible dream, inklings of what a more Hawaiian Hawai'i might look like help to keep the dream alive. Wong-Kalu smiles when we tell her we are going to Molokai to interview Ritte, whom she calls Uncle Walter. “When you go to Molokai,” she says, “it’s a very Hawaiian place.” Read More

Communality: A Possible Solution to Environmental Protection

Communality shapes how they organize their lives together, without political parties or a central authority. Martínez Luna and his fellow intellectuals talk about four pillars of communality: connection to the land, general assemblies, collective work and celebrations. Read More

Carmen Santiago Alonso: In Oaxaca, Indigenous Farmers Mourn Catholic Activist

Santiago Alonso, a lay Catholic missionary who championed the culture of Oaxaca’s half a million Indigenous Zapotecs by demanding water rights for their farmers, was both a guardian of ancient rituals and agricultural practices and a model for the Catholic Church’s future in this region: local, lay-led and concerned with the most vulnerable. Read More