Last Sunday, Caroline Park gave a sermon titled "God in Our Messy, Complicated World." Caroline encouraged us to be intentional about noticing the world around us and seeking meaningful connections within it, particularly "with people who are different from you, in places where you don’t feel completely at home, with books that stretch you" and "with the larger world, with the other-than-human world around you."
For those who are interested in learning more about living in respectful relationships with the earth and other species who share space with us, Caroline recommended the book Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous botanist. Caroline said this, "Her beautifully written book is readable, moving, and deeply wise." Here's Kimmerer's author bio: "Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment." We've ordered some of Kimmerer's books for the River Lending Library! Feel free to check them out!
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