Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy, regret, hope, guilt and sorrow in prayer; offering them to the beings who sustain us but whose gift we too often fail to honor.— Union Seminary (@UnionSeminary) September 17, 2019
What do you confess to the plants in your life? pic.twitter.com/tEs3Vm8oU4
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Botanical auricular confession
I'm waiting for Pope Francis to write this into the catechism:
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A crucial question is whether they confessed to a geographically diverse set of plants, or did their botanical confession suffer from an Anglo-spheric bias?
ReplyDeleteTruly, eye has not seen and ear has not...herb.
ReplyDeleteSome one else on Twitter at that thread gave this great quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer on his time at Union Seminary in 1931:
ReplyDelete"There is no theology here. . . . [the students] become intoxicated with liberal and humanistic phrases, laugh at the fundamentalists, and yet basically are not even up to their level." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer on his time at Union, 1931