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"Children of the Fire": A Provocation in Five Parts
By Rochelle L. Johnson | Edited by Russell C. Powell 1. One evening last Spring, a class of senior Environmental Studies majors and I sat outside on the quad of The College of Idaho, where I teach, discussing the early American phenomenon of passenger...
Wildfire in Idaho

“Does Your Diocese Currently Have an Exorcist on Staff?”

William S. Chavez, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Stetson University Edited by Aaron Michael Ullrey In 2004, the Vatican requested that all Roman Catholic dioceses appoint and train an exorcist, but as Father Vincent Lampert, former exorcist...
man with a cross in hand

Inventing a Church for Shinto
By Avery Morrow Around 1872, Shishino Nakaba, a young samurai and aspiring bureaucrat, encountered loosely organized village societies or confraternities that worshiped Mount Fuji as a god and practiced healing through hand-copied paper talismans rubbed...
a map with a japanese building and inscriptions

Encountering Mirabai through Translation
By Chloe Martinez I was a college sophomore in an introductory Hinduism class when I first encountered Mirabai, a sixteenth-century Hindu mystic. Her poems felt alive and immediate to me. I remember staring at the page, wondering, “How am I just now...
Krishna and Radha

Two Perspectives on Emerson's Journals
By Lawrence Rosenwald | Edited by Russell C. Powell The first time I read Emerson’s journals, I was reading as a scholar preparing a celebratory analysis, a case for their importance and majesty. My attitude was discipular or apostolary or evangelical...
Emerson portrait

Grappling with the T-word
By Robert Thorson | Edited by Russell C. Powell The scholarly literature on transcendentalism is full of good descriptions, but not of good definitions. In The Transcendentalists and Their World, Robert Gross consciously left the movement undefined...
A dictionary with magnifying glass

Lydia Maria Child and the Eclectic Church of the Future
By Leigh E. Schmidt | Edited by Gosia E. Sklodowska As a nineteenth-century social reformer and writer, New Englander Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) covered a lot of ground: woman’s equality, abolition, prison reform, historical fiction, children’s...
Lydia Maria Child

Maṇḍala
Buddhism provides many tools to aid the practitioner negotiating the relationship between self and world. The Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition of Tantra emphasizes the power of ritual to make such connections in the process of advancing toward enlightenment...
Muted colored mandala from fourteenth century

Thoreau's Dream Mountain
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) is often remembered today as a naturalist and nature writer. But he had a wider, and weirder, understanding of nature than did many of his, or our, contemporary naturalists. He once reported hearing a voice on the vibrating...

Charles M. Stang

Emerald green artwork

Rudolf Steiner at 100: Anthroposophy in Dialogue
In December 2025, as the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) campus was emptying out for the winter holiday, two hundred people gathered in person in Swartz Hall, along with hundreds more online, to mark the centennial of the death of spiritual teacher Rudolf...

Dan McKanan

Rudolf Steiner

A Life Between Worlds

“Human beings stand with one foot in the embodied, finite world, and one foot in what has come to be called the imaginal…the realm just beyond this one, more fluid and permeable.”

Cynthia Bourgeault