Gaia's Call

<p>Note: Due to tech issues with our regular recording modality, today’s episode was recorded using Google Meet. </p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...

<p></p><p>In Part One of this series, we explored something deceptively simple but profoundly important: much of our suffering—and much of our paralysis in the face of global challenges—comes not from the events...

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<p></p><p>Part 1: The Story in Our Heads Is Shaping the World</p><p>How our interpretations fuel despair—or possibility</p><p>Not long ago I was outside in the yard with my grandson Logan, who had discovered something...

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<p>Over the past few years, a curious pattern has begun to emerge in many conversations about meaning and faith. Researchers and commentators—including Jamie Wheal in his discussions with the Home Grown Humans...

<p>There’s a moment that comes—quietly, and then all at once—when a question stops being philosophical and starts becoming practical. For Ann and me, that question is this: What is enough… and what is it...

<p></p><p>There are moments in a parent’s life when a conversation shifts from the everyday into something deeper—something that feels like it matters not just for your family, but for the times we’re living in. This...

<p>If dogs were my first teachers of kinship, the rainforest was my initiation into something far larger.</p><p>We awoke before dawn to the sound of birds I had never heard before—notes that seemed less like “song” and...

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<p>I’m not writing this as an expert in animism.</p><p>I’m writing as someone who, late in life, has discovered that something he has been practicing for more than seventy years actually has a...

<p>If something looks like a human, sounds like a human, responds like a human — but no one is actually there — what does that do to us?</p><p>Are we using technology to solve crises… or to avoid feeling...

<p></p><p>A few weeks ago, Ann and I reopened a conversation that has been quietly circling for years. What if Amber and Justin moved into the upstairs of Loving Homestead… and Ann and I moved downstairs to the...

<p>In our recent Gaia’s Call 2.0 conversations, Marla and I explored the polycrisis—the overlapping ecological, social, and spiritual challenges shaping our world. In this episode, we go one step deeper, asking a more...