Living Trees and Living Waters stand at the heart of spiritual traditions around the world. As potent symbols of sustainability and vitality, can these images help us construct a vision of Zion and a renewed Earth? The shadow of the Anthropocene hangs over us all as the threat of Climate Change grows each year. Can …
Speaker: Kathryn Knight Sonntag
Mormon Poetry and the Prophetic Imagination: Opening (the) Faith Toward Possibility
The prophetic imagination as a mode of consciousness disrupts mainstream cultural trends and seeks to expand individual and communal faith using language ripe with poetic rhythms and imagery. Whereas dogma intends to pin down and flatten out ideas and to narrow the conceptual frames through which people view the world, poetry relies on metaphor, nuance, …