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Opinion & Perspective by Bron Taylor

Opinion & Perspective


Bron Taylor's perspectives are regularly published and available via his link at the Huffington Post and Religion Dispatches. For non-print perspectives available on YouTube or aired on the radio, see interviews. Other opinion pieces (and a few of the blog posts) appear below.

Earth Religion and Radical Religious Reformation, Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (Trinity University Press, 2007). Unabridged version.

Civil Earth Religion versus Religious Nationalism, The Immanent Frame (blog of the Social Science Research Council), 30 July 2010.

Debate Over Mother Earth’s ‘Rights’ Stirs Fears of Pagan Socialismt, Religion Dispatches, 20 April 201.

War of the Worldviews: Why Avatar Lost, Religion Dispatches, 11 March 2010, an analysis of dark green religion at the Academy Awards.

Toward a Natural Religion, St. Petersburg Times, 3 December 2009, an opinion commemorating the sesquicentennial of Darwin's "Origin of the Species."

"A Shared Sacrifice," Gainesville Sun (print and online), 29 March 2009, F3.

"For Justice, the Label Must Befit the Crime," The Oregonian (print and online) 24 May 2007.

"Foreword," in Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. Eds. S. Best and A. Nocella (Oakland: AK Press, 2006), 1-7.

"Countries must heed eco-degradation" (with Lucas Johnston), Science & Theology News, April 2005, p. 6.

"Are Christian Ethics Dead in America?" Chicago Tribune, paper and online editions, 5 December 2004.

"Religion Meets Nature: A New, Global Encyclopedia Seeks to Map an Emerging Field," Wisconsin Academy Review 47(3):20-22, Summer 2001.

"Ecologist to Unabomber?," Los Angeles Times, 17 May 1996, B9.

"Environmental Studies: Getting Real," Oshkosh Northwestern, 21 April 1996, A11.

"Environmentalists Nonviolent," USA Today, 19 April 1996, A13.

"Environmental Law Imperiled," The Oshkosh Northwestern, 30 July 1995, A9.

"Modern Warfare, the Christian Dilemma," Theology News and Notes 28(1):1, March 1981. Also served as guest editor for this special issue.