Grabbing the Basket

Grabbing the Basket

by | Aug 20, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

I’ve been thinking about Pharoah’s daughter. In the beginning of the Exodus narrative, the Pharaoh orders all Hebrew baby boys be killed. The Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refuse to do it, and lie to Pharaoh and his men to try to keep the babies safe. When...
Miraccident

Miraccident

by | Aug 14, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

“Miraccident”: A portmanteau I just made up of miracle and accident. In his book, Hell: A Search for a Christian Ecology, academic Timothy Morton makes a radical argument for the beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability of everything we consider a given....
Essential Weirdness

Essential Weirdness

by | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

In 1979, researcher and author Betsy Leondar-Wright was studying what enabled or inhibited cross class collaboration, particularly in the world of activism. The lived experience behind the question was that while she was well connected to professional middle class...
Bunker

Bunker

by | Jul 23, 2026 | Blog, Big Ideas

Or, Surviving the Apocalypse, part 2. There is a man who has built a bunker in Minnesota, valued at over $100 million, with features such as anti-aircraft water cannons, a moat that has the capacity to instantly alight in flames, and lethal drones. The man who built...