About
When Ralph Waldo Emerson resigned his pulpit and walked into the woods, he was not abandoning religion; he was finding it. “In the woods, we return to reason and faith,” he wrote. “Standing on the bare ground…I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all currents of the Universal Being circulate through me.”
Our Transcendentalist inheritance lives at the heart of Unitarian Universalism and yet we often forget its power. What do we do in the age of distraction? Between the notifications, beeps, and scrolling—where is there room for wonder?
This three-session class, led by Rev. Dr. Nicole Kirk, recovers the spiritual practice of attention, drawing on our Unitarian Transcendentalist heritage, the Indigenous wisdom of botanist Robin Wall. Kimmerer, and the shared geography scholarship of Belden Lane.
The sessions are:
