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Scenes from a writing weekend
Over the weekend I had the good fortune to attend a women’s writing and meditation retreat. I can’t think of anything I would rather have been doing in the first days of the new year than listening to poetry, writing, … Continue reading
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Tagged meditation, writing
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On the blue—and green—religion of Avatar
Let’s get the negatives out of the way first. The movie pits good against evil in a tired old storyline that has less subtlety than a spaghetti western. The postcolonial spin on the tale is that here the indigenous people … Continue reading
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Tagged animism, dark green religion, nature religion, pantheism
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Where I come from, they know how to sing
If I had a near-death experience, I bet it would sound like this: These are students at Goshen College, my alma mater, a private college of about a thousand in northern Indiana.
Happy 150th to Darwin’s Origin of Species
On November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin published his On the Origin of Species. I learned this from Bron Taylor during a reading from his new book, Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, at the Boulder Book Store … Continue reading
From a contemplative weekend
I just spent several beautiful and quiet days next to Tomales Bay and Point Reyes, California. (Yes, by myself I’m raising the earth temp from all my recent air travel.) The occasion was a retreat for academics sponsored by the … Continue reading