The Church Forests of Ethiopia
Play FilmThis film tells the story of Ethiopia’s church forests–pockets of lush biodiversity that surround hundreds of churches—and the efforts to protect them.
Breathing with the Forest
FeatureNote from the Editors
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Recent Stories
ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing
Earth as Koan, Earth as Self
Reading the Rocks
Holy Terroir
The Birdman of Old Delhi
Enraptured with Earth
Najin and Fatu
MOTH: Pushing the Boundaries of Legal Imagination
Chasing Cicadas
Deep Time Diligence
Honoring the Wild Proliferation of Earthly Perspectives
Mycelial Landscapes
Puffling
Glacial Longings
Seeds of Reciprocity
Exit 238
Desert, Fire, Flood
An Offering of Remembrance
A Path Older Than Memory
Poems from the Song Dynasty
Ten Love Letters to the Earth
The Stories I Haven’t Been Told
Otter
Our Annual Print Edition
Pre-order Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?
Pre-order Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
A Forest Walk
When we step into a forest aware and listening to what surrounds us—remembering that the living world is just as aware of our presence—a relationship of reciprocity can take root. How might such a quality of attention change our ability to see, feel, and give ourselves to the landscapes around us? In this audio practice, writer and certified nature and forest therapy guide Kimberly Ruffin takes us on a sensory walk to meet the soil, sky, smells, and sounds of the forest. Encouraging us to “be a part of the music of a place,” this practice beckons us to witness, and be witnessed by, the living world.
This Week’s Podcast
When we step into a forest aware and listening to what surrounds us—remembering that the living world is just as aware of our presence—a relationship of reciprocity can take root. How might such a quality of attention change our ability to see, feel, and give ourselves to the landscapes around us? In this audio practice, writer and certified nature and forest therapy guide Kimberly Ruffin takes us on a sensory walk to meet the soil, sky, smells, and sounds of the forest. Encouraging us to “be a part of the music of a place,” this practice beckons us to witness, and be witnessed by, the living world.
Tree stories
ENGAGE
Storytelling with ជាតិ Cheate and ចិត្ត Chett: Tasting the Land with an Open Heart
A Four-Part Course with Award-Winning Filmmaker Kalyanee Mam
October 8 – 29, 2024
