Alec Gewirtz

Alec Gewirtz (@alecgewirtz on Twitter) is a writer and community-builder based in New York City. He graduated summa cum laude in Religion from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Toronto.

Alec Gewirtz in Kosmos

Notes Toward New Religions

In my view, the fact that we can’t identify further evidence for a transcendent purpose shouldn’t keep us from embracing it, because most of what will become the totality of human knowledge still awaits discovery.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

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