Chung Hyun Kyung
Associate Professor Chung Hyun Kyung, graduated from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul with the B.A. (1979) and the M.A. (1981). She holds the M.Div. from the School of Theology at Claremont (1984), a diploma from the Women’s Theological Center in Boston (1984), and the Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary (1989). She is a lay theologian of the Presbyterian Church of Korea, as well as once having…
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser is the executive director of The Media Consortium.
Passionate about mission-driven independent media, Jo Ellen has worked for a succession of independent magazines, including stints as Managing Editor and Associate Publisher of Tikkun, Publisher of LiP: Informed Revolt, and Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of Zeek. She is driven by a belief that democratic societies…
Elizabeth Kucinich
Documentary Producer. Organic Regenerative Agriculture Advocate.
Champion for Peace, Animals & the Environment
Elizabeth Kucinich is ...
A Transformational Thinker with the ability to take seemingly mundane matters and create new possibilities for strengths-based organizational development, concept framing and promotion.
A Prominent Leader for a new food movement towards…
The Good Life Living in Response of Transformation
ESSAY: THE GOOD LIFE LIVING IN RESPONSE OF TRANSFORMATION
In the worldview of indigenous societies in understanding the meaning it has and must have the lives of people there is no concept of development. That is, there is no concept of a linear process of life to set an earlier or later stage, namely sub-development and development; dichotomy why they should move people to achieve a desirable…
Ildiko Neer
I started taking photos in 2009. My pictures express the feelings and moods that I felt during my trips to the forest in the last few years. If I try to imagine myself, I see someone walking on the road straight to the light. This kind of light is in the photography and also as I process my own life. In the dreamland that I create I feel myself at home. I belong to the forest. I am under big…
Excerpt | They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity
By Bayo Akomolafe
Excerpt from the Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal
"I grew up learning that to speak like an American was to be privileged and superior. So I worked hard at disciplining the natural unwieldiness of my lips by using the ‘schwa’ sound—to pronounce a word like ‘father’ with the grace and poise becoming of a New Yorker, not with the ‘thickness’ of my own tongue.…
PREVIEW | Kosmos Journal, Fall/Winter 2015
Dear Readers
The 2015 Fall | Winter edition of Kosmos Journal is back from the printer. And it’s a beauty! If you are a print subscriber, it will be heading your way very soon. Digital Subscribers will have access to the new edition on November 4.
The theme of the new print edition is ‘Toward a Regenerative Civilization’. How do concepts like 'regenerative' and 'restorative' differ from our…
Excerpt | Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature
by Rhonda Fabian
Excerpt from the Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal
"Courage is one of the values we need so that conditions for joy and abundance can return. Our good intentions alone are not enough. Confronted with the terrible suffering in his homeland during the Vietnam War, Thích Nhất Hạnh, then a young monk, realized it was not enough to pray for peace or sit in meditation.…
Excerpt | Citizens Peace Movement of Iraq, an interview with Kai Brand-Jacobsen
Excerpt from the Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal
"KOSMOS: Thank you. Let’s turn to a very specific area on the planet where you have actually been working as a peacebuilder most recently: Iraq. Given the complex history and the present dire situation in Iraq and in the surrounding region, you have stated that people are basically realizing that if they want peace, they have to do…
Excerpt | Integral Spirituality
Excerpt from the Fall | Winter 2015 edition of Kosmos Journal
By Ken Wilber
"...That brings us to the second major type of spirituality generally available in today’s world, namely the spirituality of waking up. This is not a series of belief systems. Rather, it is a psycho-technology of consciousness transformation, a series of actual practices. These lead from the small, narrow, finite,…