Category: The Web of Life
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Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance
Lenten Series: #6, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance The terrible silence of God in response to Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane was more than a deathly stillness. Mystics have felt it too,…
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The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves
Cherry tree in late snow, image by Sharon Delgado Lenten Series: #3, Spiritual Foundations of Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Creation Crucified: The Passion of the Earth,” which is Chapter 4 of Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves “I lift…
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Awakening to New Ways of Seeing the World (Part 2)
Now that the revised edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change, has been released by Fortress Press, I am posting excerpts. Today’s excerpt is the second of two parts about awakening to new ways of seeing the world, sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating. Soon after the first edition of Love in a Time of…
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Today I Heard God Speak to Me
“The Earth is the Primary Revelation” Thomas Berry Today I heard God speak to me in the voice of a Black-headed Grosbeak. Its familiar warble rose above the cacophony of bird song and brought me to tears. Tears of joy at a Pentecost ongoing, the Divine continually speaking to us in languages we earthlings can…
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Resurrection and New Creation
“The new creation is not a different creation. It is the new creation of this deranged world. Eternal life is not a different life. It is the resurrection of this life into the life of God. . . . So the kingdom of God means that this world will be different and will be born…
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Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance
Being-at-one is not individualist self-realization but moves beyond that to change death-oriented reality. Being-at-one shares itself and realizes itself in the ways of resistance. Dorothee Soelle Lent is always a fruitful time for me, a time to reset my focus and reestablish practices that nourish my soul. Prayer is at…
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The Climate and the Quadrilateral
May, 2022, A New Review by Wyatt Robinson . The Climate and the Quadrilateral “Looking for a book study for your church to talk about climate justice? Church and Society Theology Intern Wyatt Robinson explores a theological reflection on our climate crisis.” While engaging in my work on issues of climate justice, I have been…
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Anthropocentrism and Deep Incarnation
“The Spirit in me greets the Spirit in you, Halleluiah. God’s in us and we’re in God, Halleluiah.” — Hymn by Jim and Jeanne Strathdee This post is an excerpt from “Creation Crucified: The Passion of the Earth,” which is Chapter 4 of my new book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. This book makes…
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So Much Beauty
Earlier this Spring, a Robin built a nest on a mature grapevine right outside our front door. What a gift it was for Guari and I and our daughter Serena and her grown kids who live with us. As we watched the care with which she built the nest, we decided to block off the…