“Loveliest of what I leave is the sun himself Next to that the bright stars and the face of mother moon Oh yes, and cucumbers in season, and apples, and pears.” —  Praxilla (fl. c. 451 BC)  Adonis, Dying I’m part of a thoughtful discussion group about Caroline Fairless’s book The Space Between Church and Not-Church: A Sacramental Vision for the Healing of Our Planet. The book starts with the ideas that we need a non-anthropocentric vision of our (humans’) place in the Earth community and that we need to “reimagine our moral compass,” reconfiguring it so that paying attention, … Continue reading Loveliest of What We Leave