“We exist because we exchange.”– Susan Griffin Apprentice to the Slow Immediacy of Daily Life with Douglas E. Christie It took me months to read Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology by Douglas E. Christie. I found it a joy to read slowly, soaking in the poetics married with scholarship on the Christian contemplative tradition which I so dearly love. It read like a love letter, albeit in academic one, to a tradition that is still bursting with so much fruit waiting to be tasted by the many. I think it will wet your contemplative whistle, …
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Everybody Now: Climate Emergency & Sacred Duty
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 …
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 …