Topic: Earth

Gratitude to Mother Earth

How can we can honor and show gratitude for the earth that sustains all life?  What can the Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address teach us?  What makes Robin Kimmerer’s book “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants” such an inspiring account of the … read more.

Flowers of Earth, Buds of Heaven

When spring returns, when sap flows and bulbs poke their growing leaves above the dreary brown earth, it is easy to sing praises to the Source of All. The Christian story of Easter tells of a community facing a devastating loss of their teacher and … read more.

Listen to Your Mother (Earth)

What if we thought of the Earth as a storyteller?  What would she tell us?  How can we prepare to listen?  What lessons might we learn – as we strive to create healthy relationships with each other and with the earth?  Which Earth-told stories have … read more.

Creator, Destroyer, Sustainer

Throughout human history, we have variously celebrated, feared and embraced the multiple, and often paradoxical, traits that characterize the one earth we all share as our home.  The earth gives life and it takes life.  The earth nourishes and withholds.  The earth is beautiful and … read more.