In Praise of Father Earth
We’re very accustomed to linking maternity, the feminine, and the earth; we have a Mother Earth, and Mother Nature, and mothers are supposed to nurture and bring forth life. But as we explore the UU sources, one of which is Earth-centered spirituality, how about a thought experiment for Fathers’ Day? What if we thought of nature and the earth as masculine instead of (or in addition to) feminine? What might change about how we saw the earth? What might change about how we regarded flesh-and-blood fathers? Music: Ruth Huber, piano