What is a Living Earth Community?: Journals & Articles
Further resources, if available, can be found in our full bibliography.
Atmos
2019-Present
An exploration of climate and culture, a nonprofit biannual magazine and digital platform curated by a global ecosystem of artists, activists, and writers devoted to ecological and social justice through creative storytelling. The mission of Atmos is to re-enchant people with nature and their shared humanity. Atmos inspires cultural transformation and illuminate solutions to heal and protect the planet—now, and for generations to come.
Emergence Magazine
2018-Present
Launched in 2018, Emergence Magazine is a magazine and creative production studio that explores the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality. An editorially independent initiative of Kalliopeia Foundation, Emergence Magazine illuminates the ways in which humans are continuous with—and wholly dependent on—the living Earth. It is located on the unceded ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok people of present-day Marin County.
Kosmos
2001-Present
The Kosmos mission is to inform, inspire and engage individual and collective participation for global transformation in harmony with all Life. Kosmos does this by sharing transformational thinking and policy initiatives, aesthetic beauty and wisdom, local to global.
Orion
1982-Present
Orion Magazine invites readers into a community of caring for the planet. Through writing and art that explore the connection between nature and culture, Orion inspires new thinking about how humanity might live on Earth justly, sustainably, and joyously.
"Why the World Needs Spiritual Ecology"
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Vijaya Nagarajan, Dan Smyer Yu, Carol Wayne White
Four scholars discuss the possibilities of spiritual ecology as a path toward reintegration in the face of a disintegrating world. This article first appeared in Atmos Volume 9: Kinship (p. 246-269) with the headline “The Soul of the World.”
Reading the work in this issue of Orion, readers are brought back to the vibrant potential of ritual to renew their sense of cosmological belonging and Earthly entanglement. They are reminded that they are woven into nature, which has its own rituals of birth and death, mating and migration. Rites of nature–sunrise and sunset, seasonal variations, bird choruses and whale song–are primal nodes of transformation, drawing humans into the great fecundity of life.
Our Way into the Future: A Communion of Subjects
Thomas Berry
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Thomas Berry’s essay “Our Way into the Future: A Communion of Subjects” is a visionary call for humanity to reimagine its relationship with the Earth—not as conquerors or consumers, but as participants in a sacred community of life. Originally published in 2006 by Sierra Club Books. Reprinted in 2015 by Counterpoint Press.
Earth as Sacred Community
Thomas Berry
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Thomas Berry’s essay “Earth as Sacred Community” is a profound meditation on the spiritual and ecological dimensions of our relationship with the planet. Berry challenges the dominant Western worldview that treats Earth as a collection of resources or objects and instead calls for a radical reorientation: to see Earth as a sacred community of subjects, each with intrinsic value and purpose. Originally published in 2006 by Sierra Club Books. Reprinted in 2015 by Counterpoint Press.
The Spirituality of the Earth
Thomas Berry
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Thomas Berry invites us to recognize the Earth as our origin, sustainer, and guide: alive with spiritual presence. In this chapter, Berry laments how Western traditions often overlooked this dimension, unlike Indigenous peoples who discerned the land’s sacredness. Berry envisions a spirituality rooted in the unfolding story of the universe, where humans emerge as the “heart of the cosmos.” Such a vision integrates science and wisdom traditions, calling us to a renewed intimacy, reverence, and responsibility toward our common Earth home.
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