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Dennis Okeefe's avatar

This makes sense. If men and women are careless and promiscuous in the use of generative sexuality, how could that not be felt in nature as a whole. When a culture feels its most important right is to be able to abort the growing life of their offspring, how could nature itself not mourn and wither?

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J. M. Lakin's avatar

Thanks for this piece. I think for many of our generation, how to fit nature or creation into our spirituality is a central question: certainly it was for me, and left me seeking for a long time, before discovering Orthodoxy; as I think was the case for Paul Kingsnorth and likely many others: how to view nature, how it relates to the divine, and so on. More people could be brought in, I think, if this need was answered more often or more directly (you're doing your part!).

For instance, I attend a men's group in my town, of homesteading types. All of them say nature is of key importance to their idea of spirituality. Two years ago, all were seekers or nonreligious; now half are Christian (of different stripes). The others still don't see that Christianity has anything (good) to say about nature, and it's a huge hang-up for them.

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