“Richards writes skillfully and soulfully about the most pressing issues of our times, and the deeper crisis out of which they have emerged. Drawing from a vast trove of knowledge about the world’s religious, mystical, and philosophical traditions, he extracts the most valuable gems, polishes them with the revolutionary insights of modern science, and forges a radiant, new cosmosophy―a universal wisdom that honors the wisdom of the universe. The beauty of this mythos is that it, like the cosmos, is not static but dynamic, inviting our active participation and imaginative engagement.This book succeeds in instilling reverence for a living universe and hope for a dying planet. May Cosmosophia blossom and flourish in the hearts of all beings!” ―Darrin Drda, author of The Four Global Truths

Cosmosophia: Cosmology, Mysticism, and the Birth of a New Myth

Politics & Social Sciences

Richards, Theodore

Philosophy

Homebound Publications

The Crucifixion is a modern American myth reframing the Old Testament in terms of the flight of African Americans from the Deep South during the Great Migration and the New Testament as the struggle for meaning in the modern, urban America. It is the story of a young man who is lost and alone, and must return to the city of his birth to find his place in the world. Ultimately, the man must awaken from the urban nightmare in which the world is "black and white" to realize that he and the city are embedded in a world of living color.

The Crucifixion

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Education is the subject of much public debate. Politicians and bureaucrats, educators and parents, students and concerned citizens all have an interest―and a stake―in the way we educate our children. But while much is said about the subject, seldom are the more profound, difficult questions ever asked, questions that require not only changing the way schools are organized and classes are taught, but also require a radical transformation of the very concept of education in the modern world. Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto approaches the problem of education from just such a radically new perspective.

Creatively Maladjusted: The Wisdom Education Movement Manifesto

Religion & Spirituality

Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agencyand change-making that each individual holds.By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. The Wayfarer's mission as a publication is to foster a community of contemplative voices and provide readers with resources and perspectives that support them in their own journey.As we move into our 8th year, in the face of these frightening times we must endure, we renew our commitment to our readers to be a space of solace and our pledge to advocate for marginalized communities, the arts, and environmental conservation.

The Wayfarer: Compass Points Edition

Barr, Heidi

Religious Studies

Homebound Publications LLC

A practical approach to shared inquiry and exploration in K-12 classrooms 
We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World provides practical steps and examples that parents and educators can use to begin to create new learning spaces, approaches, and outcomes. Dr. Richards’ provocative book asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about teaching and learning. It helps parents and educators question and recast these assumptions and practices while providing concrete, tested activities and ideas that will help readers reimagine educational spaces rooted in the notion that classrooms―and the stories we tell in them―are a metaphor for the world we hope to create. 
Reimagining the Classroom is divided into two parts. The first offers the intellectual framework parents and educators are seeking; it identifies specific problems with current approaches, offers an alternative vision and set of narratives, and then offers a new pedagogy to satisfy this vision. The second part of the book moves from the theoretical to the practical. Dr. Richards provides tested pedagogical tools for classrooms in science and math; literature and fine arts; spirituality and mindfulness; practical arts; and justice and social-emotional learning. Discover practical tools for creating educational spaces that prepare students for the world they will encounter Help students express their values and learn to live in community Replace or supplement school with at-home learning and activities that will give students an edge for the future Learn how the traditional approach to education is failing our kids and leading to an epidemic of depression and anxiety\nFor educators and parents ready to consider a radical shift in service of our children’s wellbeing, this book explains what, fundamentally, education can and should look like.

Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Jossey-Bass

To know What it means to be human; To find the wisdom to become Homo sapiens: To live the love That burns; To remember, And to dream a world To life; To sing songs, to write poems, to tell stories; To taste the wind with our tongues And to listen to the leaves; To press our tiny hands To the edge of our womb world; To be amazed and terrified, At this awesome, awful world; To be born, Bloody, swollen, and full of possibility. I didn't know I was a poet until my daughter was born. That day, I wrote a poem. Then I began to go back through my old journals hidden in closets, pieces of paper tucked away in books. Napkins in the corner of my desk. I excavated poems from prose. And there it was.

Handprints on the Womb

Poetry

Inkwater Press

In his novel, The Conversions, Richardsdeals with some of the most pressing questions at this moment in history: What kind of world can be created with the end of industrial civilization? What is truly at the root of the so-called clash of civilizations? What is the place for religion in the post-modern world? Is American identity only about defining and excluding the other? What does a government look like when everything, even education, is privatized?

The Conversions

Literary

“These are the end-times.” We hear this sentiment in one way or another from various sources, from the fundamentalist preacher to the scientist warning us of climate change. This is a time of economic uncertainty, political oppression and cultural unraveling. Apocalypse, in the ancient world and today, is the experience of disconnection, of unraveling. It is when old gods are dying and the old stories no longer have meaning. Drawing from sources ranging from the ancient apocalyptic traditions to contemporary science, The Great Re-Imagining explores the deep narratives that have brought us the brink of apocalypse and invites us to re-imagine our place in the world.

The Great Re-imagining: Spirituality in an Age of Apocalypse

Before you were born, I went on a journey that would take me around the world completely, a spherical, three-dimensional journey. A journey of dirt and blood. A journey of taste and bodily sensation. A journey of texture. I am writing you because I want you to live in this world, to feel it in its fullness, its depth. I want you to fall in love with the world, flawed and sorrowful as it is. Your lives and the world as a whole―these are indistinguishable to me―depend on this.

A Letter to My Daughters: Remembering the Lost Dimension & the Texture of Life (Little Bound Books Essay Series)

Cosmosophia

Wayfarer Books

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