Words that inspire action
There Is a Field
from Visiting Scholar Jeanine M Canty
In this concluding article from 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty, Jeanine summarizes the synchronicities that happened during her residency, giving examples of how living in relationship with the phenomenal and transpersonal worlds allows for harmonious relationship with our more earth-based selves.
Invitation to Reclaiming Wildness
from Visiting Scholar Jeanine M Canty
In this invitation to Finding Wildness, 2025 Visiting Scholar Jeanine M. Canty invites us to join her as she embarks on her residency. She offers a framework for her worldview, some of the projects she brought with her, and what she hoped to find during her residency.
2025 Year-End Magazine
This magazine features some of the work happening at Commonweal in 2025, including work in the Commonweal Archives, our Healing Circles program, the Collaborative for Health and Environment, The New School, and the Humane Prison Hospice Program.
The Commonweal Way
As we celebrate a half a century of program work, we are reflecting on the mystery at the heart of Commonweal. This mystery is a way of being, a philosophy, a worldview, a relationship, a soul work, and a state of mind. For this writing, we asked Commonweal co-founder Michael Lerner to offer his reflections on how the vision has grown into what our organization is today.