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Does worship of the earth-mother goddess, Gaia, connect with the paradoxical religious sensibilities of the Beyond and the Intimate? Gaia's Wizard invites us to limit the divine to Planet Earth. ....
How big is God? Big enough to create more than a trillion galaxies with billions of habitable exoplanets containing extraterrestrial life? Yes, answer astrophysicists speaking at the 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions. Is the God of the Bible big enough to create 1.1 trillion galaxies? ....
I'm heartend by the overflow of heartfelt commitment to the future generations who will live in the biosphere the present generations are destroying. And I'm heartened that persons in such a wide variety of religious traditions are of one mind regarding the urgency for global repentance, metanoia, and transformation. I'm joining in the planetary hugs. Yet, what we need are practical strategies deriving from scientific visions of just what needs to be done in order to heal what is broken in the human relationship with the biosphere. Planetary hugs should add science and technology. ....
On the one hand, I rejoice that representatives of various religions affirm freedom and human rights, values that arose during Europe's Enlightenment. And, they provide different theological underpinnings for such commitments. Yet, I fear that the indigenous symbols of ultimate reality whih enlivened historical religious traditions might get lost in the abstract supra-confessional philosophy of religion. Despite my fear, those in the 2023 Parliament of the World's Religions seem quite sanguine with their commitment to both metphyscial unity and ethical unity. Unity comes in ultimate and ethical forms at the Parliament of World Religions. ....