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Twenty-seven years ago it was my privilege to deliver a Schumacher Society Lecture in Bristol, England at a conference whose theme was “The Environmental Revolution.”
The late Catholic monk Thomas Merton (who died a martyr for peace in 1968), said that “today wisdom begins with sorrow.” Can we so accept
What is happening in the Amazon with the deliberate setting of fires is a desecration. A murder of Nature’s Sacred Temple to make money for
Reading Hildegard of Bingen’s term “Original Wisdom” or Julian of Norwich’s “Original Goodness,” one is reminded of “Original Blessing” that a number of years back
Beginning a few meditations back, we interrupted our Via Positiva essays to deal somewhat with the bad news that was bearing in on us from
The Via Negativa instructs us to let go and let be. Thus we learn how to move from no-action to action but an action born
We are considering the suffering in the Amazon forest and how best to respond to it. Small farmer and poet mystic and prophet Wendell Berry
Deepak Chapra has written that Evil will be the Number One issue in spirituality of the 21st century.* We consider homicide evil; and genocide very
We continue to explore just a few of the numerous passages in the Scriptures that sing of the Via Positiva. Consider the following: “It was
The Scriptures abound with news of the Via Positiva! Just a few examples from the Hebrew Bible follow: “God saw everything that God had made,
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