Koko

Dear Animals in the Stable

Dec 18, 2022

Holidays and Holy Days, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, World Religions

animal intelligence, animism, evolution, Koko, Matthew Fox, panexperientialism, St. Francis, The Nativity Scene

Dear Donkeys and Sheep and Camels and Oxen and Other Animals in the Stable: From my earliest years, I have known you as part of the larger Christmastime nativity scene, as portrayed in paintings and sculptures and in so many other ways, down through all the years. Jesus lays in an animal feeding trough, surrounded…
Our Inner Apes

Apr 25, 2021

Beloved Community, Interdependent Web of All Existence, Love and Justice, Science and Spirituality, Sermon, Spirituality, Unitarian Universalism

2001: A Space Odyssey, bonobos, compassion, Ethics, Frans de Waal, Human nature, Killer Ape Theory, Koko, Konrad Lorenz, Robert Ardrey, Veneer Theory

As Unitarian Universalists, we rally around a certain religious vision. That vision is of people called into greater compassion and hope–you and me, experiencing no less than a fundamental change of perception so that our sense of self expands beyond the circle of our closest intimates and each of us knows finally, beyond a shadow…