Being Part European
Play FilmWhat memories and knowledges are held by the hundreds of thousands of stolen ancestral objects kept in a secluded depot in the Netherlands by the Wereldmuseum? Filmmaker Mirelle van Tulder opens the vault to listen.
Note 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.
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Our Annual Print Edition
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?
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Shifting Landscape Film Series
Engagement Guide
Dive deeper into our four-part Shifting Landscapes film series with our new Engagement Guide, which invites you to reflect, discuss, and embark on a practice exploring the films’ themes.
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ENGAGE
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A Ten-Part Leadership Course
With Spiritual Ecology Facilitators
September 17 – November 19, 2025
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
Is a River Alive?
In this conversation, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane asks the ancient and urgent question: is a river alive? Understanding rivers to be presences, not resources, he immerses us in the ways they “irrigate our bodies, thoughts, songs, and stories,” and how we might recognize this within our imagination and ethics. He speaks about his latest book, and traces his journeys down the Río Los Cedros in Ecuador, the waterways of Chennai in India, and the Mutehekau Shipu in Nitassinan and how each brought him to experience these water bodies as willful, spirited, and sacred beings.
This Week’s Podcast
In this conversation, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane asks the ancient and urgent question: is a river alive? Understanding rivers to be presences, not resources, he immerses us in the ways they “irrigate our bodies, thoughts, songs, and stories,” and how we might recognize this within our imagination and ethics. He speaks about his latest book, and traces his journeys down the Río Los Cedros in Ecuador, the waterways of Chennai in India, and the Mutehekau Shipu in Nitassinan and how each brought him to experience these water bodies as willful, spirited, and sacred beings.
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