Wendell Berry, Climate Change, and Earth Breathing

April 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Wendell Berry is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, and for more than forty years, he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya Berry, in Kentucky. Berry is also a well-known environmental activist, and he will be present to participate this summer at the annual Unitarian Universalist General Assembly, which this year will be in Louisville, Kentucky. Berry will be joining thousands of Unitarian Universalists from around the continent on Thursday, June 20 at a … [Read more...]

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The First Source: Direct Experience

August 13, 2012 By 2 Comments
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In 1962, only a couple of years after I was born, pollsters found that 2% of Americans claimed to have had a “mystical experience” of God. In 1976...that number had risen to 31% of the population.... By 2009, 48% of Americans confessed that they had had a mystical encounter with the divine. ...Not everyone who has experienced [the Sacred] afresh is an evangelical, fundamentalist, or Pentecostal. Indeed, they hail from many sorts of faiths.... What if the 1970s were not simply an evangelical … [Read more...]

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Ellen Davis: An Eco-friendly Bible Scholar You Should Know

July 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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I recently had the opportunity to attend a morning workshop with Ellen Davis on "Honest Grief and Realistic Hope: Teaching and Preaching about Creation in 2012." Ellen is the Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. She is perhaps best know for her excellent book Scripture, Culture, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge University Press, 2009): This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, … [Read more...]

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Noah’s Flood: Climate Change Then & Now

May 13, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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6:1 When people began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them, 2 the sons of God saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose. 3 Then the Lord said, "My spirit shall not abide in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years." 4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went in to the daughters of humans, who bore children to them. These were the … [Read more...]

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