Everybody Now: Climate Emergency & Sacred Duty We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the odds. On 19th October 2020, Everybody Now is being released by podcasters all over the world as a collective call for awareness, grief …
Author: Swanson
Moth & Mother / New Foundations
“Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.”– Henry David Thoreau Moth & Mother A moth is perched on the head of Mother Mary. Mother Mary is a four-inch tin icon that leans against the windowsill above our kitchen sink. Resting against the counter, I am pondering moths. A pseudo-Jungian idea pops into my mind that moths are merely the shadows torn from butterflies. The moth’s sooty streaks are the tell of their origins and the reason they clammer for the light. Annie Dillard once wrote about a moth and a flame being consummated into a union undividable (as I wrote that …
Subtle Sacraments & The Quiet Mind
photo by contemplify “The day before [Roger Ebert] passed away, he wrote me a note: “This is all an elaborate hoax.” I asked him, “What’s a hoax?” And he was talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn’t visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a vastness that you can’t even imagine. It was a place where the past, present, and future were happening all at once.― Chaz Ebert (Roger’s Wife) Subtle Sacraments Loved ones are …