In a rapidly-warming world, Wisdom has built her house. Tired of the clamorous conflict between the deniers and the doomsters, people are seeking wisdom in a time of climate change from the indigenous peoples of the earth, who against all odds have maintained their deep, ancient relationships with their historic lands and waters; from the global poor in their practical knowledge of the way the world works; and from the human ecologists making deep connections between flora, fauna and humankind. Scripture's Wisdom literature also helps; as does the wisdom of our own people and place - our own ‘indigenous’ ways, old ways in which we have related to our own soil and each other, those traditional practices on the land and in the home which may have been eclipsed in recent decades by industrial agricultural practices and all the fripperies and distractions of the consumer boom, but which we still value. Making do and mending as an antidote to consuming and discarding. Collaborating as community as an antidote to ploughing on alone. 

A talk for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity, 15 August 2021.

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