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Sunday Adult Forum -- Holy Conversations: On Being with Krista Tippett

Sun, Dec 08

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Hickory

Join us as we listen to and discuss parts of Krista Tippett's most popular On Being episodes. Join when you can; each Sunday is a standalone discussion. All are welcome.

Sunday Adult Forum -- Holy Conversations: On Being with Krista Tippett
Sunday Adult Forum -- Holy Conversations: On Being with Krista Tippett

Time & Location

Dec 08, 2024, 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM

Hickory, 726 1st Ave NW, Hickory, NC 28601, USA

About the Event

December 8 – Robin Wall Kimmer: The Intelligence of Plants

Few books have been more eagerly passed from hand to hand with delight in these last years than Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. Krista interviewed her in 2015, and it quickly became a much-loved show as her voice was just rising in common life. Robin is a botanist and also a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She’s written, “Science polishes the gift of seeing, Indigenous traditions work with gifts of listening and language.” An expert in moss — a bryologist — she describes mosses as the “coral reefs of the forest.” Robin Wall Kimmerer opens a sense of wonder and humility for the intelligence in all kinds of life we are used to naming and imagining as inanimate. Facilitator: Michael Deckard


December 15 – Barbara Brown Taylor: This Hunger for Holiness

“I like it much better than ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’ —…


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