Theodore Richards
@theocosmosophia.bsky.social
Author of 8 books. Philosopher, poet, educator, professor, husband, father. Founder of The Chicago Wisdom Project and ReImagine Consulting & Coaching.
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I’m teaching a new course through Creation Spirituality Communities. Learn more here: www.cscommunities.org/reimagine1
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’m teaching a new course through Creation Spirituality Communities. Learn more here: www.cscommunities.org/reimagine1
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New article in Wayfarer Magazine (an excerpt from What Happened to Icarus) @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New article in Wayfarer Magazine (an excerpt from What Happened to Icarus) @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
“What Happened to Icarus,” my next book, is now available for pre-order: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/what...
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“What Happened to Icarus,” my next book, is now available for pre-order: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/what...
The latest excerpt from my next book, “What Happened to Icarus,” is available here in Wayfarer Magazine. Read the article “Mozambique” here: www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/mozambique...
October 17, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The latest excerpt from my next book, “What Happened to Icarus,” is available here in Wayfarer Magazine. Read the article “Mozambique” here: www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/mozambique...
“If we do not take seriously the deep, psychic processes at work, we will be doomed. To think that something like the holocaust cannot happen here is to ignore ... history and, most importantly, what’s really going on with the human psyche"
Read: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
October 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“If we do not take seriously the deep, psychic processes at work, we will be doomed. To think that something like the holocaust cannot happen here is to ignore ... history and, most importantly, what’s really going on with the human psyche"
Read: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Blackhawk helicopters flying over the the south side of Chicago. We are under siege.
October 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Blackhawk helicopters flying over the the south side of Chicago. We are under siege.
Here’s another excerpt from my next book, “What happened to Icarus.” It’s a story about mentorship and community—and about what endures when memories fade. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/sue?r=18kv...
September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Here’s another excerpt from my next book, “What happened to Icarus.” It’s a story about mentorship and community—and about what endures when memories fade. www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/sue?r=18kv...
I was recently interviewed for The Wayfarer’s series, UNCHARTED
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August 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I was recently interviewed for The Wayfarer’s series, UNCHARTED
@wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...
@wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
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“We think that our purpose is to make it always bright and sunny, to numb the pain, to fix the broken things. But repair is something different. Repair is the antidote to despair.” Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
July 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“We think that our purpose is to make it always bright and sunny, to numb the pain, to fix the broken things. But repair is something different. Repair is the antidote to despair.” Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
My publisher used Caravaggio’s “The Conversion on the Way to Damascus” for the cover of my novel “The Conversions.” I saw the original for the first time here in Rome at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My publisher used Caravaggio’s “The Conversion on the Way to Damascus” for the cover of my novel “The Conversions.” I saw the original for the first time here in Rome at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo. @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
There is a story
Written on my daughter’s body
In languages I don’t speak…
Read more on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Written on my daughter’s body
In languages I don’t speak…
Read more on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
June 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There is a story
Written on my daughter’s body
In languages I don’t speak…
Read more on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Written on my daughter’s body
In languages I don’t speak…
Read more on Substack:
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
New edition now available from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New edition now available from @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
I was recently interviewed in The Wayfarer about a new project called “Reimagine: Self & Worldview.” Read the interview here: open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer... @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I was recently interviewed in The Wayfarer about a new project called “Reimagine: Self & Worldview.” Read the interview here: open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer... @wayfarermagazine.bsky.social
“Although it gives us the illusion of control, the impossibility of invisibility, of lostness, is how our power is ceded.” Read more in Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
May 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Although it gives us the illusion of control, the impossibility of invisibility, of lostness, is how our power is ceded.” Read more in Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
“A Letter to My Daughters,” my memoir and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Award Gold medal, is being re-released. More here: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/a-le...
April 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
“A Letter to My Daughters,” my memoir and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Award Gold medal, is being re-released. More here: www.wayfarerbookstore.com/product/a-le...
“ReImagine: Self & World(view)” is shared inquiry into the stories we tell that give us our sense of place in the world and how we can reimagine them at this moment—a moment when our systems and, even more significantly, the stories that connect us, are unraveling. More info on the attached flyer.
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“ReImagine: Self & World(view)” is shared inquiry into the stories we tell that give us our sense of place in the world and how we can reimagine them at this moment—a moment when our systems and, even more significantly, the stories that connect us, are unraveling. More info on the attached flyer.
For #EarthDay, I am sharing an excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted. “Nature & Education"
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
April 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
For #EarthDay, I am sharing an excerpt from Creatively Maladjusted. “Nature & Education"
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Most of my recent writing can now be found on Substack. To follow or read, click here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
April 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Most of my recent writing can now be found on Substack. To follow or read, click here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
I read this while reading @eveewing.bsky.social ‘s latest book on a trip from my adopted hometown of Chicago to the city I grew up in, Rochester, NY. I took this photo of my high school as I reflected on my own educational experiences from ROC to the south side of Chicago.
March 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I read this while reading @eveewing.bsky.social ‘s latest book on a trip from my adopted hometown of Chicago to the city I grew up in, Rochester, NY. I took this photo of my high school as I reflected on my own educational experiences from ROC to the south side of Chicago.
The demise of the Department of Education and the rise of DOGE occur together out of necessity; for they reflect a quasi-religious adherence to a worldview that favors efficiency, order, and control over the poetic, the organic, the creative.
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open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
March 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The demise of the Department of Education and the rise of DOGE occur together out of necessity; for they reflect a quasi-religious adherence to a worldview that favors efficiency, order, and control over the poetic, the organic, the creative.
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
A poem. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
March 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
A poem. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Learn more and register: creation-spirituality-communities.trainercentralsite.com/course/sins-...
March 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Learn more and register: creation-spirituality-communities.trainercentralsite.com/course/sins-...
“Teaching and learning, above all else, are a reflection of—and recursively reify—a worldview.”
Read and learn more from Reimagining the Classroom and the Imaginari Fellowship: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read and learn more from Reimagining the Classroom and the Imaginari Fellowship: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
February 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“Teaching and learning, above all else, are a reflection of—and recursively reify—a worldview.”
Read and learn more from Reimagining the Classroom and the Imaginari Fellowship: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
Read and learn more from Reimagining the Classroom and the Imaginari Fellowship: open.substack.com/pub/theocosm...
New from The Wayfarer Magazine. “An Imaginal Revelation: Apocalypse as Revelation and Rebirth” (an excerpt from my book, The Great Re-imagining) @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
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open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...
February 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
New from The Wayfarer Magazine. “An Imaginal Revelation: Apocalypse as Revelation and Rebirth” (an excerpt from my book, The Great Re-imagining) @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...
open.substack.com/pub/wayfarer...