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Jon Magnuson

Jon Magnuson is executive director of the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.

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Visitors hike the Appalachian Trail in 2016 at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (CNS/Chaz Muth)

In adapting to climate change, technology will not save us

Book review: In The Human Scaffold, anthropologist Josh Berson invites readers into a world that turns upside down conventional arguments about how we can best meet the challenges of climate change in the 21st century.

A totem called "Ko-kual-alwoot" ("Maiden of the Sea"), carved by a Swinomish tribal member, stands near Deception Pass at Rosario Beach on the coast of Puget Sound, a few miles from the Suquamish Reservation. (Courtesy of The Cedar Tree Institute)

Indigenous leader Ted George was a 'fire carrier' who bridged cultures

Appreciation: Ted George now joins the ancestors. He leaves behind important lessons about community organizing, resiliency, and the gifts and personal costs that come along with a devotion to cross-cultural justice work.

People make their way by boat past a church along a flooded road in Bulacan, Philippines, Aug. 21, 2013, following heavy monsoon rains. (CNS/Reuters/Erik de Castro)

Historian explores what global weather changes mean for faith communities

Book review: In Climate, Catastrophe, and Faith, Philip Jenkins takes a deep dive into religion and science to explore climate change and religious upheaval, concluding with a haunting prediction.

A gray wolf is pictured at rest. The Anishinaabe word for wolf means "one who shows the way." (Gary Kramer/United States Fish and Wildlife Service)

Time of the Hunger Moon: saints, wolves and the global pandemic

Commentary: There is a price we have paid for disrupting natural systems of self-regulation. Controversy about the gray wolf offers clues to such hidden connections. Yet, a legend of St. Francis offers hope.

There is no shortage of government studies about homelessness in the United States.

Good Friday street-level Stations in a city full of wealth and power

Thirty of us move in procession around the Seattle streets that border a historic, cobblestoned park called Pioneer Square. We accompany Jesuit Fr. Pat Twohy and a homeless man who carries a cross, nailed together from two pieces of discarded driftwood. 

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