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Tag Archives: Great Turning
Earth Day 2015
In the early 1980s, we all lived under the pale of mutual nuclear destruction. Are you, dear reader, old enough to remember? I was in high school then and I took this very personally. While others were out partying, or … Continue reading
Posted in End of the World, Hope, Unitarian Universalism
Tagged 7th principle, commit2respond, complicity, derek jensen, earth day, Edward Everett Hale, Elissa Melamed, environmental activism, Fate of the Earth, forget shorter showers, Great Turning, I am only one but I am one, interdependent web of existence, Joanna Macy, Jonathan Schell, this changes everything
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The Great (Racial Justice) Turning (Part II)
(Part I can be found here.) We long for a clear, identifiable fix. Something that we can advocate for – it might not come tomorrow or next week, but we can name it now (like body cameras on police officers, … Continue reading
Inexplicably Towards the Great Turning
There are three stories that describe this point in the earth’s narrative: Business as Usual; the Great Unraveling; and the Great Turning. Business as Usual is a familiar paradigm. This story values growth over all other things. But only particular … Continue reading
Hope with Feet: Stepping Into the Great Turning (sermon)
Village Church, Cummington, MA ~ June 2, 2013 Karen G. Johnston, Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry READING #1 “Causes and effects assume history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip … Continue reading
What is Worth Saving? (sermon)
Village Church, Cummington, MA May 19, 2013 Karen G. Johnston Candidate for the Unitarian Universalist Ministry Readings A Stone Jug A bulldozer digging a pond on my mother’s family’s land unearths two stoneware jugs buried four feet in the ground, … Continue reading