Becoming Earth: An Experimental Theology – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer visits the
Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon, where over the course of two
centuries scientists will study how old-growth trees and their
decomposition contribute to the biogeochemical cycles of the Earth.
For the forest’s cedar trees, Robin says, death is merely a
transition—a rearrangement of elements from one species to the
next. What might this teach us about the nature of our own
“afterlife?” Can this cyclical ecology be an experimental theology?
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