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A Lesson in Time from Brother Bear
Bears are made of the same dust as we, and they breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. So wrote John Muir. See how this kinship might lead us to the mountains — on sabbaths or any other time — in this guest post from Shawn Carson.
Species Loneliness
It feels as though this global pandemic is separating us and making an already individualistic society even more isolated. But what if this didn’t have to be the case? What if we could find community among the trees?
Sabbath Gone Viral — Green Sabbath and “Sheltering in Place”
Can social distancing teach us to properly value one another? Can “shelter in place” remind us of how little we actually need to run after the fulfilment of illusory “needs” implanted by advertising and social pressure? Can the spread of an “unnatural” pathogen jar us to greater awareness of how unhealthy our world-systems are?
The Sabbath in an Era of Climate Change
Here we bring you the article from our director, Jonathan Schorsch, that originally inspired the Green Sabbath Project.
We humans face a set of dire ecological crises, the results of what many now call the Anthropocene Era, the era of human modification of earth’s planetary systems. These crises—global warming, altered weather, species extinction, the threats of various kinds of toxic pollution, the proliferation of garbage, soil erosion, desertification, declining freshwater supplies, and so on—constitute not only an absolutely real imminent threat to the future well-being of humankind, but also, it sometimes seems, a modern manifestation of the various litanies of biblical curses.
Hello.
Welcome to the Green Sabbath Project blog. It is my honor and delight to initiate this forum.
Fifty years ago, the United Nations called for an environmental sabbath or earth rest day, to be celebrated once a year (in June). The planetary agenda introduced in the accompanying booklet, called Only One Earth, urges protection against “climate change and global warming,” among other environmental ills.