Spring Bee Hiving Moon
Had a chance to speak to Groveland UU this morning, a regular event each year for me for over 20 years now. Some years more, some years less, always congenial.
The Reimagining Faith piece (see Current Work at the top of this page) resonated in a way a bit different than I had intended. The conversation was not so much about reimagining faith as it was about the falling away of religious life and what that might mean. That’s where the discussion led.
The Reimagining Faith project needs to deliver a fuller account of what I call religion collapse disorder. Better documentation of this accelerating trend in the US and more on its implications for individual and group spirituality will be important. I had sort of skipped over that and gone directly to the challenge facing deinstitutionalized Americans.
Between now and the Summer Solstice I’m going to start investigating possible Asian resources. I’ll look especially at Taoism, Shinto, and the ukiyo-e artist Hokusai who belonged to a Buddhist sect that worshiped the north star.
There is also more work to be done on tactics, or methods, of constructing a new faith and I think the constructive theology exercise lined out below will be fun and a good step in this direction.
Realized, with a bit of surprise, that I’ve spent a lot of my life putting myself in front of people: preaching, organizing, acting, touring, writing. Never thought of it all like that before and it made me wonder what drives it. Don’t know.
