What we can learn from Indigenous Wisdom?
We were delighted to hear Sara’s gospel of her life at the Zoom Eucharist recently. Sara introduced us to the wisdom of Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants).
Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and a member of the Potawatomi First Nation).
Sara focused on themes such as the idea of Original Blessing within Christianity; the Gift Economy; the understanding of all things as beings, and the importance of the relatedness of all things in a world imbued by Spirit; of listening to all that surrounds us.
Instead of our Western approach of seeing Creation as a resource, we need to feel the relatedness of the whole of life and articulate our gratitude to all beings. There is so much we can learn from Indigenous people.
We were delighted to hear Sara’s gospel of her life at the Zoom Eucharist recently. Sara introduced us to the wisdom of Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants).
Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and a member of the Potawatomi First Nation).
Sara focused on themes such as the idea of Original Blessing within Christianity; the Gift Economy; the understanding of all things as beings, and the importance of the relatedness of all things in a world imbued by Spirit; of listening to all that surrounds us.
Instead of our Western approach of seeing Creation as a resource, we need to feel the relatedness of the whole of life and articulate our gratitude to all beings. There is so much we can learn from Indigenous people.
To follow up on this, you could listen to Kimmerer's CBC Radio podcast entitled Tapestry. Why is the world so beautiful? An Indigenous botanist on the spirit of life in everything: here.