Note from the Editors
It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality.
Recent Stories
Breath-Space and Seed-Time
Practical Reverence
Gourds
Dendrochronology
Detour
Unborn and Undying
On Time, Mystery, and Kinship
Time Thinks of Time
Wrinkled Time
Butterfly
There Is No Show More Beautiful Than This
ស្គាល់ មជាតិ Knowing Your Taste
Taste of the Land
Documenting Shifting Landscapes
Memory, Praise, and Spirit
The Last Ice Age
Aloha ‘Āina
Sun House
The Nightingale’s Song
Our Annual Print Edition
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
Our first hardcover edition, Time: Volume 5 explores the vast mystery of Time, journeying through its many landscapes: deep time, geological time, kinship time, ancestral time, and sacramental time. If we can recognize a different kind of Time, can we come to dwell within it?
Emergence Magazine, Vol. 5: Time
ENGAGE
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (UK)
Sharpham Trust, Devon, England
Online: April 30 – June 4, 2025
In-person: June 18 – 21, 2025
Seeds of Radical Renewal: A hybrid in-person & online leadership course (US)
Whidbey Institute, Washington, US
Online: August 6 – September 10, 2025
In-person: September 25 – 28, 2025
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
Breath-Space and Seed-Time
In this narrated essay and six-poem sequence, acclaimed translator and poet David Hinton finds an uncannily literal translation of modern science’s “space-time” in yü chou—one of ancient China’s most foundational cosmological concepts. He invites us to contemplate the fabric of time and space as a kind of primordial breath, drawing on the ideograms for yü chou to show that time is not a metaphysical river moving past, but an all-encompassing present that renders the Cosmos alive. An epilogue of poems delivers us into an elemental world where time is woven with the sacred.
This Week’s Podcast
In this narrated essay and six-poem sequence, acclaimed translator and poet David Hinton finds an uncannily literal translation of modern science’s “space-time” in yü chou—one of ancient China’s most foundational cosmological concepts. He invites us to contemplate the fabric of time and space as a kind of primordial breath, drawing on the ideograms for yü chou to show that time is not a metaphysical river moving past, but an all-encompassing present that renders the Cosmos alive. An epilogue of poems delivers us into an elemental world where time is woven with the sacred.
ENGAGE
The Song of the Seasons
Devon, England
June 26 – 29, 2025
The Song of the Seasons
Whidbey Institute, Washington State, US
May 23 – 26, 2025
