Europeans had learned how to dominate nature, but not how to live with nature. Half a millennium of that trajectory has left our planet in peril. Perhaps, while there is still time, we should become humble enough to consult the wisdom of those who knew how to live in respectful relationship with the rest of God’s creation. This was the instinct of Saint Francis, the spiritual savant who spoke of Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Brother Fire and Sister Water. It’s this type of integrated spirituality—Christian theology and aboriginal wisdom—that compels me to read both the Swiss theologian Karl
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