Tracing the story of the idea’s inception one rainy night in a South Devon woodland, this became the Foreward to our 2022 art.earth publication Borrowed Time: on death, dying and change: Although several years were yet to pass before we turned fully towards it, the idea which would become Borrowed Time – a year long conversation…

on blocking traffic as a form of prayer I’m staring at my screen as somewhere in America a handful of Extinction Rebellion road blockers are all but beaten up by a passer-by on his way to work. I keep replaying his high-pitched, furious shout: “What is wrong with you people?”. The young rebels’ vulnerability is…

But the sorrow is radiant, like light shining in the darkness of a black stone lying over the heart. Sr. Meinrad Craighead OSB, Lodestone. One year on, I’ve been coming back to this episode of The Great Humbling, where Dougald Hine and Ed Gillespie mull over what prayer does or does not mean to them.…

An idea about drawing and language that means a lot to me comes from a writer, Ursula Le Guin. LeGuin calls it the handmind – a thought voiced by a potter in her utopian novel Always Coming Home: ‘Nothing we do is better than the work of the handmind. When mind uses itself without the…

As the UK Government attempts to criminalise protest as such, why it matters now more than ever that universities join Extinction Rebellion when it returns to London in April – as if our lives and the lives of the young depended on it. On January 22nd 2019 Cornwall Council became the UK’s first Unitary Council…

on civil disobedience, privilege and ecocide I’d tend to say I’ve not much use for hope in the face of ecological collapse, but of course XR has a wild, improbable hope written all over it. Despite how bad things look, I still feel the visceral pull of that hope or I wouldn’t be caught up…

On knowing where we’re headed, and not minding. A couple of months before Extinction Rebellion’s April 2019 uprising I attended a talk hosted by Falmouth University’s multi-faith chaplaincy. The event was billed as The Spirituality of Ecology. The speaker was the Rev Lucy Larkin, an Anglican Priest and Doctor of something called eco-theology – a…