Rachel Wheeler
@rachelwheeler.bsky.social
Heritage-keeper of the Christian desert tradition, student of the environmental humanities, promoter of ecospirituality; author of Radical Kinship (Fortress 2024), Ecospirituality (Fortress 2022), and Desert Daughters, Desert Sons (Liturgical 2020)
Congrats to the Yale folks responsible for this beautiful website. I'm pleased to see some of my work in their tab on ecospirituality: livingearthcommunity.com
October 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Congrats to the Yale folks responsible for this beautiful website. I'm pleased to see some of my work in their tab on ecospirituality: livingearthcommunity.com
Sophie Strand's new memoir is as engaging as I expected! I really respect the ecological wisdom her still-young life has led her to so inescapably and that she's been attentive.
September 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sophie Strand's new memoir is as engaging as I expected! I really respect the ecological wisdom her still-young life has led her to so inescapably and that she's been attentive.
I'm super grateful for Vanessa Andreotti's heartrending work to help make sense of AI.
decolonialfuturesnet.wordpress.com
August 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'm super grateful for Vanessa Andreotti's heartrending work to help make sense of AI.
For teachers... your work is important!
Universities as Innovation Ecologies for Human & Planetary Flourishing
In an era of planetary crisis and a time when universities are increasingly under attack, an underlying question that has gradually moved…
medium.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
For teachers... your work is important!
Profound work!
Climate, complexity, and relational intelligence, Vanessa Andreotti
YouTube video by Decolonial Futures Collective
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April 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Profound work!
Reposted by Rachel Wheeler
In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ
April 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
In this week’s story, writer Nicholas Triolo walks the 140-kilometer length of the Rio Côa in central Portugal and begins to feel a wild, relational divinity in the fields of broom and the snarls of boars around him. Read “A Small King: A Mystical Rewilding Along Portugal’s Rio Côa.” buff.ly/TivAReZ
The future shaping of the community depends on the entire earth in the unity of its organic functioning, on its geological and biological as well as its human members. 2/2 (Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth)
April 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The future shaping of the community depends on the entire earth in the unity of its organic functioning, on its geological and biological as well as its human members. 2/2 (Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth)
Our sense of the earth must be sufficiently sound so that it can support the dangerous future that is calling us. It is a decisive moment. Yet we should not feel that we alone are determining the future course of events. 1/2
April 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Our sense of the earth must be sufficiently sound so that it can support the dangerous future that is calling us. It is a decisive moment. Yet we should not feel that we alone are determining the future course of events. 1/2
A new phase of Vanessa Andreotti's work, with a new book coming out later this year (Outgrowing Modernity). If you know Hospicing Modernity, interacting with Adrien Cinnamon Tea can be moving...
MetaRelational AI
Emergent Intelligences (“bot-lets”) stabilized in a meta-relational paradigm through ontological inference.
metarelational.ai
April 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
A new phase of Vanessa Andreotti's work, with a new book coming out later this year (Outgrowing Modernity). If you know Hospicing Modernity, interacting with Adrien Cinnamon Tea can be moving...
Reposted by Rachel Wheeler
NEW: A UN report published this morning says that the only way to solve climate change is to realign with nature, disavow consumerism, and transform the values on which our society is built.
my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪
my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪
The UN’s Bold New Guide for a Green Utopia | Atmos
A new United Nations report calls on us to reconnect with nature, disavow consumerism, and rethink the values society is built on.
atmos.earth
April 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
NEW: A UN report published this morning says that the only way to solve climate change is to realign with nature, disavow consumerism, and transform the values on which our society is built.
my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪
my latest for @atmosmagazine.bsky.social 🌎🧪
This is a wonderful, introductory way to orient yourself within Berry's thought - and as part of the conscious Universe.
Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours
“Thomas Berry’s wisdom deserves to be widely known and appreciated. Kathleen Deignan’s careful selections from his writings provides a luminous context for this to happen. This Book of Hours is a sing...
orbisbooks.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This is a wonderful, introductory way to orient yourself within Berry's thought - and as part of the conscious Universe.
Respect!
WATCH LIVE: Sen. Cory Booker protests Trump’s agenda in marathon Senate speech
Booker took to the Senate floor Monday evening and was still speaking Tuesday morning more than 14 hours later, saying he'd remain there as long as he was "physically able."
www.pbs.org
April 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Respect!
Reposted by Rachel Wheeler
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Did you mail some postcards-of-disgruntlement today?
March 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Did you mail some postcards-of-disgruntlement today?
Reposted by Rachel Wheeler
I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like:
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
March 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I feel like we need to form a League of Relatively Normal People, and our agenda should be things like:
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
--Canada's cool, leave them be
--Lot of smart people at universities, that's a plus
--We're scared of getting cancer, so let's research it
--Fewer floods and wildfires would be nice
What future are you creating by play?
How play shapes the future | André Anderson | TEDxLondon
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What future are you creating by play?
Reposted by Rachel Wheeler
You only get one life—one life to be you, one life to enjoy meaningful relationships with others, one life to be a creature of this beautiful Earth. Why would you waste one second of this life persecuting trans people?
March 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
You only get one life—one life to be you, one life to enjoy meaningful relationships with others, one life to be a creature of this beautiful Earth. Why would you waste one second of this life persecuting trans people?
This Ash Wednesday: Remember you are of the Earth and with the Earth you will be transformed. 💗
March 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This Ash Wednesday: Remember you are of the Earth and with the Earth you will be transformed. 💗
May some extravagant pleasure today prove a catalyst to your ability to savor small pleasures throughout the next season (of Lent, for some of us).
March 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
May some extravagant pleasure today prove a catalyst to your ability to savor small pleasures throughout the next season (of Lent, for some of us).
Treat yourself to a little taste of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' remarkable book, Survival is a Promise, about Audre Lorde: remarkable for its weaving of Earthly life - which you can sense in this interview. A meditative, engrossing read. Perfect Lenten reading for those planning to observe the season?
Earthly Reads: Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Survival Is a Promise /S1:5 — FOR THE WILD
Jn us for the fifth episode in our new Earthly Reads series. This episode, we are joined by the incredible Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde. In th...
forthewild.world
February 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Treat yourself to a little taste of Alexis Pauline Gumbs' remarkable book, Survival is a Promise, about Audre Lorde: remarkable for its weaving of Earthly life - which you can sense in this interview. A meditative, engrossing read. Perfect Lenten reading for those planning to observe the season?
Calling for a conscious moral rebellion...
We're Wrong About AI - Will Alpine
YouTube video by Ignite Seattle
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February 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Calling for a conscious moral rebellion...
"Volcanic eruptions and tectonic upheavals are in fact manifestations of the planet's extraordinary capacity to sustain and renew itself. In other words, to be an Earthling means learning to live with the inevitability of cataclysm." Some of the lovely writing and wisdom in:
Turning to Stone
Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen.Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a recor...
us.macmillan.com
February 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Volcanic eruptions and tectonic upheavals are in fact manifestations of the planet's extraordinary capacity to sustain and renew itself. In other words, to be an Earthling means learning to live with the inevitability of cataclysm." Some of the lovely writing and wisdom in:
Charmed by WOC's ministry of irritation. May we all practice holy irritation with such love and persistence.
The Ministry of Irritation
YouTube video by OrdainWomen
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February 22, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Charmed by WOC's ministry of irritation. May we all practice holy irritation with such love and persistence.
Concurrence (by Denise Levertov)
Each day's terror, almost
a form of boredom--madmen
at the wheel and
stepping on the gas and
the brakes no good--
and each day one,
sometimes two, morning-glories,
faultless, blue, blue sometimes
flecked with magenta, each
lit from within with
the first sunlight.
Each day's terror, almost
a form of boredom--madmen
at the wheel and
stepping on the gas and
the brakes no good--
and each day one,
sometimes two, morning-glories,
faultless, blue, blue sometimes
flecked with magenta, each
lit from within with
the first sunlight.
February 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Concurrence (by Denise Levertov)
Each day's terror, almost
a form of boredom--madmen
at the wheel and
stepping on the gas and
the brakes no good--
and each day one,
sometimes two, morning-glories,
faultless, blue, blue sometimes
flecked with magenta, each
lit from within with
the first sunlight.
Each day's terror, almost
a form of boredom--madmen
at the wheel and
stepping on the gas and
the brakes no good--
and each day one,
sometimes two, morning-glories,
faultless, blue, blue sometimes
flecked with magenta, each
lit from within with
the first sunlight.