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This is a must-listen episode. Famed writer and poet, Kathryn Knight Sonntag, joins Madison and Abbey around the Fireside today to discuss the End of Days and the building of Zion. This conversation was had in December of 2020, though 2021 has continued to prove just how “End of Days” the world is feeling. Kathryn brings a needed contemplative and mystical perspective to these troubling narratives about the world. For more from Kathryn, you can read her terrific collection of poems in Tree at the Center.
As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the context of our religious community is that of the Last Days. Similar to other strains of Christianity in the West, the end of the world and the Second Coming of Jesus colors the way we view the world and contemporary social issues. These narratives tend to be constructed in disempowering ways and, in some cases, prevent us from adequately dealing with environmental issues like Climate Change. Kathryn’s work as a poet helps create empowering ways to live into these latter days. We take a very contemplative approach in this episode and ask “how do we unlearn Babylon? How do we build Zion? What is the role of the Divine Feminine in the Restoration of the Earth?”
Links:
Kathryn’s Website
An Early Resurrection by Adam Miller
Consecrating a Crisis by Faith Matters Foundation
The Naked Now by Richard Rohr
If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis
By Common Consent Press
Music by Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com)
