Creation Stories

Braiding Sweetgrass: Where We Come From, How to Go Forward

Oct 23, 2022

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Stewardship, Wellness, World Religions

Adam and Eve, Braiding Sweetgrass, Creation Stories, gift economy, market economy, Professor Paul Christensen, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Skywoman

Part 1 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? It is the human condition, worldwide: to be coming from someplace which has filled you with stories about how the world works, what things mean, what is right…
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: The Creation Stories

Nov 14, 2021

Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Sermon, Spiritual Biography, Spirituality, Wellness, World Religions

Ancient Near East, Creation Stories, Hebrew Bible, Marcus Borg, Naomi Shihab Nye, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time

In an article in the New Yorker, humorist Paul Simms invites us to imagine the God of the Hebrew Bible as an enthusiastic user of social media, like so many of us are today. God is a blogger. God has a blog. So imagine: God has just created the universe. And then God reaches for…