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Things that caught my eye

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I’m collecting a few things that feel related to my own work—old or new. I plan to bring these “collections” to readers more often. Here’s what I’ve noticed lately.

Faith and science songs

My friend Ciara Reyes Ton made a Spotify list of worship music at the intersection of faith and science. She also records music under the name Mount Carmell. I like “To Become Human” as well as “Taste and See,” which she recorded as a faith and science project at Science for the Church. You can also listen on YouTube or even I have a SoundCloud.

Breaking the Spell of Ecological Dissociation

This is what I’m trying to say in my current series “Formation in Place.” (You’ll have to subscribe to see the whole series). Hear it from someone else’s mouth: Willow Defebaugh’s recent newsletter in Atmos (where I’ve also published) really resonates with my understanding of where we’re at as a society. She writes: “We know this story well: humanity has largely been divorced from the rest of nature through industrialization, colonization, urbanization, and the enclosure of the commons. Many of our ancestral ties to the land and community have been severed. What I want to emphasize here is the psychic component: This rupture is a trauma, one that has invoked mass dissociation.”

Houses of Worship Could Help Fuel the Energy Transition.

Coalescing around National Sun Day—a national grassroots event held in September, my friend Liuan Huska wrote for Inside Climate News about faith groups working to transition houses of worship to solar energy. She includes several groups, including Interfaith Power & Light, with active chapters all over the country, and Climate Revival, an organization focused on mobilizing communities of color on environmental justice. She reports Steve Mulder, a board member of the Michigan group Solar Faithful, “considers faith communities a ‘sleeping giant’ in the clean energy transition.”