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Taking a Closer Look at the Natural World with Prof. Don Pfister

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“The periwinkle is blooming but I’m looking here.” Professor Don Pfister said with amusement, redirecting a group of thirty, rain-gear clad participants to look away from the delicate purple-blue flowers to where green lichen had formed between bricks on...

Video: We Have Always Been Animists

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Graham Harvey, professor of religious studies at The Open University (UK), discusses animism and how our relations are damaged by ongoing efforts to separate (human) culture from ‘nature’ and humans from other species. Engaging with Indigenous knowledges...

Video: Ardencies: St. Hildegard's Blazing Plants

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Michael Marder discusses the paradox of “excessive heat” that, on the one hand, signals the ardency of faith and the love of God and, on the other, the effect of sin configured as ariditas (dryness), undoing viriditas (the greening green, a self...

Video: Farming While Black

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Author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman discusses the movement for food sovereignty and building a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community. FULL TRANSCRIPT: Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good...

Leading the Fight for Food Justice

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“We always begin by thanking our ancestors,” said Leah Penniman, a Black Kreyol farmer and food justice activist, at the start of her September 17 talk, “Farming While Black: African Diasporic Wisdom for Farming and Food Justice,” hosted by the Center for...