Category: creation
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The Language and Culture of Shalom
Marcus Briggs-Cloud is a linguist and the co-director of Ekvn-Yefolecv, “an Indigenous ecovillage community in Weogufka, Alabama comprised of Maskoke persons who have returned to their ancestral homelands to practice linguistic, cultural, and ecological sustainability.” Years ago he resolved to revitalize the language of his people before it completely died out. The Maskoke people depend…
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Living Peaceably With Creation
A sermon about living gently with Creation. 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither…
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Universal Communion
In Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead, an elderly clergyman writes to his much younger son, “This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.” I was reminded of these two short sentences yesterday, on Earth Day. As mentioned in a recent newsletter, I’ve been rereading Pope Francis’ encyclical letter, Laudato Si’…
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Do You Know Your Trees?
I finished reading a new book about trees on a day this week when the news around the world was once again overwhelming and terrible. In Afghanistan people were trying to escape with a desperation I can barely imagine much less, if I’m honest, consider for more than a few minutes at a time. Then…
David W. Swanson 