deep time & doxology

Desert Meditations

Three Vignettes from New Mexico

23 hrs ago • 

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Tracing the Path of Modernity in the Navajo Pueblito's Shadow

Reading Early Modern History and the Fossil Fuel Present in the Traces of the Dinetah

Oct 1 • 

Jonathan Parkes Allen

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September 2025

Yaupon Tea and More Forgotten Pasts and Possible Futures

Plus Updates on our Fall Schedule

Published on Chattanooga Food Forest Coalition • Sep 18

August 2025

In Search of Southern Sacred Landscapes

On the Cult of the Confederate Dead And What Might Come After

Aug 20 • 

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July 2025

Kawal Coming Back Home

Reflections on Migration, Indigeneity, and the Plants We Carry With Us

Published on Chattanooga Food Forest Coalition • Jul 2

Reading Under and Around the Lines and Lemmas

Manuscript Ottoman Qur'āns and the Nature of Early Modern Textuality

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

Of Things Lost and Future Possibilities

Some Concluding Reflections on the Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians

Published on Chattanooga Food Forest Coalition • Jun 19

Acceleration and Its Discontents

Or, How Industrial Modernity Makes Some Things Faster- But Not Everything

Jun 5 • 

Jonathan Parkes Allen

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May 2025

The Lost Canebrakes of the American South

Further Explorations in the History and Recovery of Native Agroecosystems

Published on Chattanooga Food Forest Coalition • May 7

April 2025

This Present Bleakness

On Sustaining- Or Not- Scholarly Drive in Fraught Times

Apr 7 • 

Jonathan Parkes Allen

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March 2025

The First Food Forests of the American South

Recovering Native Perennial Agroecology in Our Region

Published on Chattanooga Food Forest Coalition • Mar 27

Depths and Shallows

On AI Generated Images and the History, Theory, and Theology of Human Cultural Production

Mar 12 • 

Jonathan Parkes Allen

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