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
Aralkum
When the Prince of Heaven Sleeps
The World Is a Prism, Not a Window
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
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
A Path Older Than Memory
This week, we return to our interview with journalist Paul Salopek, who, for the last decade, has been on an epic journey retracing the migration pathway of some of the earliest humans out of Africa’s Rift Valley. Moving through the world as our ancestors did, Paul shares how he’s become attuned to the way time passes through us and around us: from the ancient pulse of the Earth underfoot, to the fury of mechanized time that rampages through our urban centers. Throughout, he shares profound experiences of timelessness, which he dubs “sacramental time,” that bring together mind, body, and landscape in conversation.
This Week’s Podcast
This week, we return to our interview with journalist Paul Salopek, who, for the last decade, has been on an epic journey retracing the migration pathway of some of the earliest humans out of Africa’s Rift Valley. Moving through the world as our ancestors did, Paul shares how he’s become attuned to the way time passes through us and around us: from the ancient pulse of the Earth underfoot, to the fury of mechanized time that rampages through our urban centers. Throughout, he shares profound experiences of timelessness, which he dubs “sacramental time,” that bring together mind, body, and landscape in conversation.
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
