Alan Koppschall
alankoppschall.bsky.social
Alan Koppschall
@alankoppschall.bsky.social
Journalist | Editor @Plough | @theBruderhof member | @PittTweet and @SienaCollege Grad | hopelessly optimistic @ManUtd fan
Reposted by Alan Koppschall
I have a lot more to say about all of this - some of which - about ideas of cure and nature - I’ve already said in my best words in Some of Us Just Fall and various shorter pieces including most recently in @plough.bsky.social

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The Myth of the Nature Cure
In the English Lake District I found companionship in nature, not a cure.
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August 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reposted by Alan Koppschall
The ‘nature cure’ is a lie, says @pollyrowena.bsky.social:

A false belief that our health is under our control (so long as we do enough wild swimming) and ‘only another iteration of the ways in which we exploit our environment for human gain.’

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The Myth of the Nature Cure
In the English Lake District I found companionship in nature, not a cure.
www.plough.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Reposted by Alan Koppschall
totally wild one from NYPL's spring list (out of a downstate commune's publishing house) www.plough.com/en/topics/fa...
By Water: The Felix Manz Story
By Water chronicles the conflict between Reformation leader Ulrich Zwingli and his student Felix Manz, who was drowned as one of the first Anabaptist martyrs of the Radical Reformation.
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May 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM