The Great Turning – 3 Ways to Confront the Crisis

Posted on February 6, 2015October 22, 2019 by Eric Windhorst

If we will have the wisdom to survive/to stand like slow growing trees/on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it/then a long time after we are dead/the lives our lives prepare/will live here. ~Wendell Berry It is easy to feel overwhelmed by the shear scope of our environmental crisis. It seems that daily I am bombarded Read more about The Great Turning – 3 Ways to Confront the Crisis[…]

Religion: Conflict or Compassion?

Posted on September 1, 2014October 22, 2019 by Eric Windhorst

This coming fall semester, I am excited to be teaching my first university-level course: Introduction to Cultural Geography, at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. As I go about preparing my lectures for the course, I am finding one particular chapter from the textbook, Geographies of Identity and Difference, to be engaging, yet, at the same time, quite limiting (and, Read more about Religion: Conflict or Compassion?[…]