Spirituality and Nature
Mike King considers the connection between spirituality and Nature
Ben Pink Dandelion, programme leader for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies at Woodbrooke and the 2014 Swarthmore lecturer, gave a talk at our Meeting recently. I stood up to make a comment, introducing myself as both a Quaker and an animist. I had greatly enjoyed his presentation and I told him, as a Quaker and as an animist, that I wanted to make an additional observation. I had sensed that an energetic thread ran through him back to the foundations of Quakerism, possibly because of time spent in important historical locations for our religion – our ‘sacred sites’ as it were.
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