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Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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Augustine

Why doesn’t everyone love diversity?

June 26, 2021

Transcript We step down the slope of wet sand. Today the waves are small, breaking in soft foam around our ankles. We wade in deeper, settle our snorkel masks on our faces, and lift our feet from the sand, floating toward our local reef. My eyes roam over the rolling stretches of coral below us….  Read More…

Tagged With: Anabaptists, Augustine, authoritarianism, Calvinism, church discipline, control, Crusades, democracy, diversity, feudalism, forest bathing, Inquisitions, intolerance, Karen Stenner, logic of authoritarianism, Mennonites, monoculture, original sin, persecution, pluralism, Roman Empire, social discipline, tolerance, tropical reef, Vine Deloria Jr.

 

Just like a tree

August 7, 2020

Transcript I’m thinking today about how a tree grows, from a seed. So I went to YouTube, and I found some time-lapse videos, just to watch the wonder of it all over again. There’s the seed, covered in damp soil. Then a few seconds in, something magical happens. We call it germination, but that’s such…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward nature, Augustine, capitalism, germination, gift of life, life force, original sin, poverty, Protestant work ethic, Protestantism, Sobonfu Somé, views of human nature

 

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