A blessed holiday season to you! If you’re a longtime listener, you might hear echoes of an earlier episode, number 19, “Filling the Hungry with Good Things.” Transcript I walked up to the microphone at the front of the church and turned to face the crowd. Three hundred pairs of eyes stared back. So many… Read More…
law of property
A better world is waiting when we shift our story of nature
I just completed some home remodeling—on my home page at Substack, that is, where my podcast is hosted. Next up will be this site—stay tuned for a complete makeover here in the coming months! To go along with the remodeling, I wrote a little guidebook to orient readers to my work. It’s a good idea… Read More…
30. Cultivating nature spirituality
Transcript It’s a question that comes up a lot: How does a person start practicing nature spirituality? So today I’d like to talk about two practices in particular. They’re great if a person is just beginning to explore nature spirituality, and they’re equally great for people who have years of experience on a path. But… Read More…
22. An inheritance problem
Transcript A long time ago there lived a very wealthy man who owned vast estates. The story says that he was a ruler, or government official, and this is how we know he was a landowner, because in his time and place, to have a seat in government you had to own land, and lots… Read More…
19. Filling the hungry with good things: A Christmas meditation
Transcript I can still say the words from memory—Luke 2:1–20, King James Version, the verses I recited for the Christmas program at church when I was in grade school. It’s the story of the baby in the manger and the shepherds and the angels. Recently I took another look at the Christmas story in Luke,… Read More…
17. The law is in the ground
Transcript This week, with our attention on the Supreme Court, I was thinking a lot about one sentence on law that was spoken many years ago by an Indigenous man of Australia. Doug Campbell was sitting one day with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose, looking at a large hill across the way. “You see that… Read More…