So: a rabbi, an imam, and a pastor walk into a radio studio.
Actually, they skype in.
Are you as sick as I am of hearing the media's treatment of “the religious response to covid-19” being reduced (over and over and over and over and over again) to the usual voices of the usual Big Three?
Where are the Hindu voices, the Buddhist? Where are the Native elders? You'd think that the rest of us don't even exist.
Ironically, the media thinks that it's being inclusive. Good old "Abrahamic" privilege.
These segments always end with the same question: In these hard times, what gives you strength?
Said rabbi, imam, or pastor invariably respond with some navel-gazing citation from Scripture or well-polished nugget of wisdom from their respective traditions.
Figures. Their narcissistic fixation on humanity is one of the great historic wrongs that the “A-list” religions have visited on the world.
As for me, I'm a pagan. For me—as for the ancestors, as for Indigenous peoples of the world to this very day—the very heart of our living inheres not so much in looking in as in looking out.
What gives me strength in these hard times? I'll tell you.
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Yes! I was just saying this to myself as I took time to witness Nature around me yesterday. The whales are migrating by our beach,
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YES. This.
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Venice is under lockdown for, what, a month now? Already the fish are coming back into the canals. "Nature"'s ability to regenerat
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I've looked at a couple of coronavirus lock down effects on wild animals videos on YouTube. The sight of wild boars in the streets
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Every time I go outside, breathe the air, feel the breeze, I am strengthened. Every time I see the sun shining, I am energized. Wh