real utopias

Slavoj starts with the banality of Gangnam Style's popularity as a means of mass trance experience. He then moves to ethnic cleansing, and the role poetry ...

The untold story of how meditation was integral to Occupy's endurance and impact holds vital lessons for those seeking mindfulness and a more just world.

We enter the police station in a mid-size town in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, knocking on doors to find the officer who’s agreed to be interviewed for our research on spirituality and social transformation. A few minutes later, one door opens. “Hello, apologies for not responding, I was having my moment of prayer, but come in”, says a female warrant officer. We enter her small office. A laptop on a shelf is playing a video with a pastor giving a sermon. A document about “spiritual warfare” is pinned to the wall. 

Terry Eagleton has written a witty and insightful book, but the real work—discovering within the word of God for all time, the word of God for this time—remains. Our grandchildren will pay a heavy price if we fail.