Emerging from a novel, a film, a deep sleep, or returning home from a vacation,.we have probably all had the odd experience of seeing the world through a different lens even when its the same place we’ve been living perhaps for decades. What is it that’s happened? Perhaps a kind of disruption, death if you will, of a habituated worldview that allows for a fresh, surprising, perhaps even awe-inspiring look at our surroundings. The message on the church sign on the cover photo, sent in by Henrik C. Strandskov, is along those lines, introducing an issue that hopefully stirs readers as the sign suggests. For this season of resurrection, the issue begins with the poem “Love Rises,” which seems to have emerged from the writer’s personal, internal experience of the divine. The anonymous writer on the blog Mystic Meandering frequently posts such offerings, which then often become a source for my own contemplative meditation. In the next article, “Christ is Risen! and Irenaeus was the first illumination physicist,” Uffe Jonas discusses the reality of the Resurrection, tying modern physics to what Grundtvig found so inspiring in the writings of the second century bishop. After that rather heavy read, it’s time for some excursions into the outdoors. In “Challenges for Birders,” Dagmar Marie Muthamia shares her experiences with birding, giving tips to encourage others to take up the hobby. Then Lois Knudsen Lund recounts her travels last year to the far distant northland of North America in “Camping in Labrador.” Finally, we travel, metaphorically, to the edges of the institutional church with excerpts from Episode 29 of The Rewilding Podcast, a conversation about Rewilding Christianity with pastors Solveig Nilsen-Goodin and Aric Clark, facilitated by Peter Michael Bauer.
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March 2023
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