Grounding Heaven on Earth
Grounding Heaven on Earth
Do You Hear What I hear? A song, a song high up in the trees With a voice as big as the seas With a voice as big as the seas` While listening to waterfalls I hear an inner roaring dissolving chaos in my soul. I hear inner waves of peace gently lapping on the […]
Do You Hear What I Hear? Read More »
The word Advent means arrival or coming of something very important. What I see coming is an important rejoining of Jesus and Earth Mother for a harmonious and abundant planet… Our Creator infused breath into soil to animate the human soul. When you separate breath/spirit from the body it ceases to function. Likewise dysfunction in
Jesus Versus Earth Mother Read More »
Giving is a dance between your heart and the cosmos. Giving is much more than a commercial transaction between humans. Our gifts impact the air, water and earth around us so let’s remember to give ourselves to Earth Mother. For the last few hundred years, humanity has been treated to a colonial ideology that separates
give yourself to earth mother Read More »
Who owns nature? our environment? our surroundings? who has sovereignty over all these things? Whose Sovereignty is it?
Whose Sovereignty is It? Read More »
Careful observation reveals many nature patterns are repeated in the human body. As we recognize more and more patterns in Nature being repeated in the human body, we may begin to accept that maybe humans really are a mirror image of Creation. The awe that we feel in nature is a recognition of seeing ourself
Pine Cone Spirituality Read More »
A Kairos moment may be pregnant with possibilities or stillborn with paralysis. Christians use the word Kairos to explain the pause between the crumbling of one social order and the rebirthing of a new society. Transformation is not guaranteed. Radical change requires that large groups of people simultaneously breathe into multiple institutions to birth a
A Climate Kairos Confession Read More »
Talk Given during North Carolina Bread Convention Have you ever heard that old spiritual based on Matthew 5:6? Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven feed me till I want no more… Being FULL, spiritually and physically is the opposite of Hunger. I am totally perplexed what causes us to be hungry on a planet specifically
Hunger is the Absence of Nature and Nurture Read More »
I issue a call to all of my sisters to share a gift and tell the environmental movement to #Touch the Ground! When Al Gore took his Climate Reality training to Johannesburg and told the Global South that the answer to climate change was renewable energy, Black women resoundingly said okay, now Touch the Ground!
My Intersection of faith, ecology, and policy took me to this national prayer call on March 15th– marking the 54th day of the new administration. Since we are over the half way point so it is time to move past shock and awe into a plan of action. I issued a call to action to
REDEEMING SOULS REQUIRES REDEEMING SOIL Morning sunlight bounced off the banana leaves that framed the peach stucco healing arts center I opened on Bayou Road. It was the spring of 2006 and I could count on 2 fingers the family, friends and colleagues who were willing to join this mission trip to New Orleans. They
One of the reasons the defense department of the United States has identified climate change as the greatest threat to security is because of its impact on food production. In the March 13th issue of Newsweek, NASA announced that California only has one year left of water. At this year’s annual meeting of the Samuel
Calling Forth All Josephs in the House! Read More »
Just as Mary’s song celebrated the coming of a new presence on Earth, let us “sing” with these women to save our Mother Earth
Amazon Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change-a photo journal Read More »
An African proverb says: “If you know the beginning well, the end will not trouble you.” This is particularly true when seeking the best response to climate change. Within the Biblical beginning stories of John 1, Proverbs 8, and Genesis 2, we find the right relationship among humankind, Creation, Creator, Christ and Wisdom. In the
When God coupled the earth with the breath of eternity, our souls and the soil were fused and our destinies perpetually intertwined. While many of us have been taught that human beings have dominion over the Earth, we have not understood that what we do to Mother Earth, we do to one another and to
Gospel of the Garden Read More »