Gather@Grand—Befriending Trees Two
Befriending Trees Befriending & Some Biblical Trees: Reading with Pope Francis’s Integral Ecology Insight
Led by Sr. Barbara Green, OP
To reduce Laudato Si’ to a single insight would be to say that the usual firm categories we count on between human creatures and the rest of them (animal, vegetable, mineral; plant, human, animal) are more porous and fluid than we have been taught by our Western culture and its systems of organization. Those categories have their place and are in no danger of disappearing, but before those ways of thinking came to dominate, other ways of organizing beings were not uncommon. The Bible spent 2/3 of its “coming into being” life without assuming the inevitability of those tight edges.
We will join Pope Francis (and a number of non-modern Western cultures) and revisit some biblical images and see what we can learn. Invitation: To hear some biblical trees as our near kin and skillful helper; outcomes: how trees help us … what they may ask of us to help them; to include them more as “thou-s” than as “it-s”. We will have some gentle out-of-doors activity, weather permitting.
Cost: No cost; donations gratefully accepted.
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