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08: Nature’s Gospel and the Way of Resurrection

Abbey and Madison practice a bit of ecotheology in this special episode of Bristlecone Firesides in an attempt to demonstrate that Christianity is a natural religion. The Earth lives a continual pattern of change that enables the ever regeneration of life. From the seasons to the water cycle, the Earth forever in a state or process of change. This pattern of order, disorder, reorder is the pattern of the Gospel — Life, Death, and Resurrection. The magic in the universe is that dead things become the grounding for new life. In the life and death of Jesus, this becomes a Resurrection Journey.

By re-grounding the good news of the Gospel in natural Earth processes, we see that the Gospel is a force of nature bigger than any Church. And that Faith is much more about saying “yes” to this Journey and experiencing our membership in the Family of Things

Links:
Book of Nature
An Early Resurrection by Adam Miller
Why the Church is as True as the Gospel by Eugene England
Convergent Evolution
Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rilke
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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