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IdeasThe American environmental movement is rooted historically in ideas about pristine wilderness, free from human presence, that replicate colonial patterns of white supremacy and settler privilege. Native-led movements are changing the script.
Dina Gilio-Whitaker -
EditorialThe Transcendentalists practiced the art of forming and maintaining spiritual friendships transcending differences of gender, social location, theology, politics, and race.
John A. Buehrens -
EditorialHe wanted nothing to do with the Unitarian church that baptized him, but today’s Unitarian Universalism has embraced his revolutionary ecological, conscientious, and spiritually open approach.
Richard Higgins -
Ideas‘Walden, a game’ brings Thoreau’s simplicity to a tech savvy audience.
Ellen Brenner -
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Walden remains uncannily ‘addressed to our condition exactly,’ 150 years after its publication.
Richard Higgins -
EditorialReclaiming the legacy of Margaret Fuller, the forgotten intellectual at the heart of the Transcendentalist movement and the first American theorist of women’s equality.
Kimberly French -
IdeasHow American culture transforms—and is sometimes transformed by—liberal religion.
Christopher L. Walton -
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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody saw her educational work as part of a larger effort to reform human society.
Christopher L. Walton