Category Archives: spirituality

Writing that walloped me

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

The flight attendant had just demo’ed seat belts and was reaching for the sample life jacket when I pulled the May issue of Spirit magazine from the seat-back pocket in front of me. Soon after takeoff I came upon a … Continue reading →

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The great work of Thomas Berry

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Thomas Berry, one of the foremost Christian thinkers to root his philosophy in the Earth, died yesterday at the age of 94. Born to the Appalachian hills, he became a Catholic priest of the Passionist order and then a renowned … Continue reading →

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Deliver me in a black-winged bird: Meeting an eagle

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Midnight blue water rested at the horizon under a brightening sky, framing shafts of pine and fir at shore’s edge. It was a July dawn in 1995, and I was visiting Lopez Island, off the coast of Seattle, birdwatching. Bald … Continue reading →

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Being known by a birch tree

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

I grew up in a small white house at the very edge of a tiny town in northwest Ohio. Beside the house my parents had planted just a few years before my birth a cut-leaf weeping birch tree, Betula pendula … Continue reading →

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Finding tongues in trees

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Priscilla Stuckey, PhD

Over the weekend I attended a conference on religion, ethics, and nature at Ohio Northern University, where one of the keynote speakers was David Abram. A dozen years ago Abram wrote a book that for me worked magic. It became … Continue reading →

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