Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks

By Helen Tworkov, Originally published in Tricycle, Fall 1992 bell hooks bell hooks is a seeker, a feminist, a social critic, and a prolific writer. Her books include“Ain’t I a Woman?”: Black Women and Feminism; Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black; Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life (with Cornel West); and, most recently Black Looks all from Southend Press.  She was born Gloria… Read More Agent of Change: An Interview with bell hooks

The Evolution of Evolution Part III

I have been working on a theory that the Buddhist “story” of dependent origination (not the doctrine, the story), is a cultural narrative about evolution. Pratityasamutpada-as-evolution has a philosophical tradition in India that predates Buddhism: Samkhya philosophy. The History of Philosophy  without any gaps series (Kings College London) teaches Indian philosophy. It has a section on Samkhya… Read More The Evolution of Evolution Part III

Michael Dowd: Standing for the Future

by David McCleod, originally posted at Integral Permaculture. The former pastor, Rev. Michael Dowd, is best known as the author of the best-selling book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. Dowd is a religious naturalist (“Religious naturalism (RN) combines a naturalist worldview with perceptions… Read More Michael Dowd: Standing for the Future