Chris Johnstone
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Becoming A Good Ancestor: Active Hope, Part 5
I’ll begin with a question: How many continents are there in our world? Do you know? There are seven: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. And, in ancient cultures from all these seven continents, what you find is belief that reality–composed of both the material and spiritual–is like a tree. The…
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The Return of the Light: Active Hope Part 4
We are in that time of year when some of the most primal elements of existence are uppermost in mind: light and darkness. Radiance and gloom. These are the days when people in the Northern Hemisphere experience the nights growing longer and longer, with less and less light to cheer us. By 5pm, incredibly, it’s…
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Respecting Nature’s Wildness: Active Hope Part 1
Around 170 years ago, our Unitarian Universalist spiritual ancestor Henry David Thoreau spoke about wildness. “Our village life would stagnate,” he said, “if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness […] We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic…
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