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We have been meditating lately on the “ground of being” and the feminist dimension to that divine title. Hildegard of Bingen astounds us when, 150
We have been meditating on the return of shamanism in our time. This ought not to come as too big a surprise because in many
If, as Thomas Berry observes, the role of the shaman is returning again in our time, it behooves us to meditate on its significance and
A shaman lives in two worlds at once. Poet Bill Everson speaks of the link shamans have with the Animal Powers and recognizes Christ’s relationship
Berry defines what he means by wildness that shamans possess calling it “something primordial, a realization that humans are not here to control but to
Hildegard, like Thurman, calls out about our “pillaging of nature.” She thunders: Now in the people who were meant to green there is no more
Yesterday we saw how Thurman underscores our inherent need for cosmology — the “curiosity of our race” includes curiosity about our origins, our beginnings, where
For Howard Thurman our feeling that we are part of our “total environment” is part and parcel of holiness. He was ahead of many theologians
We are meditating on the likenesses between Howard Thurman’s theology and that of Hildegard of Bingen. Yesterday we focused on their common teachings about the
One might ask what unites a twelfth century Benedictine abbess and a twentieth century African American prophet and philosopher? It is the sacredness of creation
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