The claim at the heart of this book is that modernity is an all-embracing mindset that dominates the contemporary world. It is fitting that the author is someone who genuinely has a foot outside of the tent of modernity and can bring a unique perspective to its study. Vanessa Machado…

My understanding of the current Climate Crisis is that human beings are responsible for it, and we have caught ourselves (and the natural world) in a pincer movement of our own making. On the one hand, we have so degraded the ability of the Earth to regulate itself that it…

We can probably say with certainty that the dinosaurs never saw what was coming. They were getting on with their lives; eating, mating, raising young and repelling rivals. Then, one day, a meteorite slammed into what is now Mexico and it was all over for them. By contrast, human beings…

Anthea Lawson is an activist with a formidable reputation. Trained as a journalist, held numerous high profile campaigning positions, uncovered scandals and frauds, been instrumental in getting laws passed and with access to the corridors of power. Despite this enviable status, she encountered terrible, disrespectful working practices at the NGOs…

Riders on the Storm is a book about wisdom. We can read a definition of wisdom and still not know what it is. Perhaps only when we hear wisdom expressed and experience the connection that it brings, do we recognise it. Wisdom is a rich, deep, inclusive understanding of a…

When I was in my teens, I was introduced to the ideas of Evangelical Christianity and for a few years, this was a big influence in my life and a lot of ideas were absorbed. I gradually lost interest as I reflected on the church’s role in society. The idea…

Quiet is not the same as silence, it is much more nuanced. Silence is an absence of sound, a void. It is alien and unsettling. Quiet is the distant, gentle, reassuring sounds of the world. Distant laughter, birdsong, the swish of grass. Sounds that comfort, rather than intrude. …

A serious question. How is it that a species of animal that describes itself as intelligent is destroying the only place it can ever live? You may have asked yourself this question. If you haven’t, I suggest you should, because this is where we are. …

Most of us know that the human world is suffocating and killing the natural world. We know this from the last fifteen minutes of David Attenborough documentaries and from our own revulsion at the rafts of discarded plastic in the sea. From our despair at woodland being destroyed for shopping…