Being Part European
Play FilmWhat memories and knowledges are held by the hundreds of thousands of stolen ancestral objects kept in a secluded depot in the Netherlands by the Wereldmuseum? Filmmaker Mirelle van Tulder opens the vault to listen.
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.
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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
Shifting Landscape Film Series
Engagement Guide
Dive deeper into our four-part Shifting Landscapes film series with our new Engagement Guide, which invites you to reflect, discuss, and embark on a practice exploring the films’ themes.
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Seeds of Radical Renewal: A Ten-Part Leadership Course
With Spiritual Ecology Facilitators
September 17 – November 19, 2025
Podcast
Emergence’s weekly podcast features exclusive interviews, author-narrated essays, poetry, multipart series, and more.
This Week’s Podcast
In the Wake of the Sandbound
Nick Hunt traverses the spine of the Curonian Spit in the Baltic Sea, and learns how its sands—anchored by forest roots for millennia—began to move rapidly and swallow villages in the eighteenth century when woodlands and sacred groves were systematically clear-cut for timber. Though halted through engineering and reforestation, the dunes are now eroding under human footsteps, and spilling into the lagoon they border. As he witnesses how quickly landscapes are changed by our own hands, Nick asks if the challenge is not in reversing the damage we’ve done, but in remembering humility before the forces of the Earth.
This Week’s Podcast
Nick Hunt traverses the spine of the Curonian Spit in the Baltic Sea, and learns how its sands—anchored by forest roots for millennia—began to move rapidly and swallow villages in the eighteenth century when woodlands and sacred groves were systematically clear-cut for timber. Though halted through engineering and reforestation, the dunes are now eroding under human footsteps, and spilling into the lagoon they border. As he witnesses how quickly landscapes are changed by our own hands, Nick asks if the challenge is not in reversing the damage we’ve done, but in remembering humility before the forces of the Earth.
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