Sublime

Through habitat loss and shocking abuse, the indigenous defenders of our natural world are fighting for their rights to survive. Indigenous people protect 80% of our world’s biodiversity. If this 5% are protecting 80% of global biodiversity, what is it that the rest of us are doing? The more we connect and appreciate nature, the more we might want

The masses of the people are poor. If we dare take the position that in Jesus there was at work some radical destiny, it would be safe to say that in his poverty he was more truly Son of man than he would have been if the incident of family or birth had made him a rich son of Israel. It is not a…

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Because so many time-worn systems of power have placed certain people outside the realm of what we see as human, much of our work now is more a matter of “rehumanizing.” That starts in the same place dehumanizing starts—with words and images.

atavistic

The native peoples, the red people, were entrusted with the guardianship of the Earth, the teachings of the plants, foods, and healing herbs. The yellow race carried the knowledge of air, of spiritual advancement through knowledge of the sky, wind, and breath. The black people were given knowledge of the water, the most adaptive and yet most

Arthur F. Miller Jr. writes: “Understand that you are God’s idea. You will be held accountable for using what he gave you to work with.”4

its core, racism is a denial of God. According to the mishnah’s logic, to believe in one God who brings all of humanity into being is to affirm that we all come from the same place and that on some level we are therefore all equal.