Season after Pentecost | 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A)
Genesis 25:19-34; Psalm 119:105-112; (Isaiah 55:10-13; Psalm 65:[1-8], 9-13;) Romans 8:1-11; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
What if we treated all of creation—plants and stars, soil and rivers—as our kin?
Biblical scholar Mari Joerstad and indigenous activist Nick Estes challenge our human-centered worldview.
Enemies are real. They are also closer to us than we may care to imagine.
If it were easy, we would have it all figured out already.
The sower just seems to hope that the seeds will find the right kind of soil, while doing little to ensure that is the case.