Paths
byTrail blaze, or follow the road? My best friend grew up on a few acres in east Texas, in a town of a 1,000…
Articles
Wendell Berry and Naturalistic Sacramentalism
byWorks of art participate in our lives; we are not just distant observers of their lives. They are in conversation among themselves and with…
A Tribute to Mama Angelou
byI love cooking. A few years ago, I was in Barnes & Noble and came across a few cookbooks that were written by Maya…
Time to Re-Place the Gospel
byHeretical though the title of this essay sounds, there’s no need to warm up the tar or pluck the chickens. The heresy lies not…
Re-Imagining Personhood
by[button color=”redlight” text=”white” url=”http://ecotheo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Trevor-Bechtel-Re-Imagining-Personhood.pdf” window=”_self”]Download Article as a PDF[/button] [separator type=”thin”] Abstract This paper presents a detailed narratival argument for considering animals as persons…
Living Groundwater
byMy walk along the beach near Cornucopia, Wisconsin this February was likely the coldest pilgrimage of my life. I stepped out of my car…
Andocentric Vegetarianism and the Parodic Subversion of Nonhuman Identity
by[button color=”redlight” text=”white” url=”http://ecotheo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Sparks-Franklin-Androcentric-Vegetarianism-March-2014-The-EcoTheo-Review.pdf” window=”_self”]Download Article as a PDF[/button] [separator type=”thin”] Abstract Identifying the human/animal dualism as yet another violent fabrication within exclusionary identity…
Walking Stories
byIn the beginning … was the story. Before the word was the Word, before there were buildings, before there were high priests, before there…
The Homogenization of Nature
byWe humans like to think we are creatures superior to all other aspects of Nature. Other than beavers, we are the only creatures that…