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SPIRIT OF PLACE
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A kayak retreat on “Spirituality and Ecology” along Lake Superior’s shoreline.
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- The Good Grain
- 2012 Fall Tai Chi Schedule
- Your Brain on Nature Presentation by Eva Selhub, MD
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Category Archives: Writings on Spirituality and the Environment
A Healing Time: Honoring the spirit of the cedar
from Marquette Monthly December, 2012 By Jon Magnuson As remote Northern Michigan cabins are boarded up for the winter, local stores open doors with discount Christmas sales and holiday lights are strung across neighborhood porches. Deep in forests across the … Continue reading
The Good Grain
from The Christian Century September 26, 2012 By Jon Magnuson Ahead of me, stumbling down an embankment, a 16-year-old boy drags a 50-pound bag of recently harvested rice seed toward the river bank. He’s a volunteer and part of a … Continue reading
The Lighthouse
By Shahar Madjar MD MBA A small group of nurses, doctors, and other health professional meet yearly at the beautiful lighthouse in Big Bay. They call these meetings the ‘Janus Project’. They sit around a long oval dining table and … Continue reading
Witness: A personal account of local efforts to stop the Kennecott Eagle Project mine, by Jon Magnuson
from Marquette Monthly December, 2011 Jogging down the stairs at Heathrow Airport to the underground train running to London, I carry in my overnight luggage a small container of wild rice, formal letters from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, and … Continue reading
Economics and Spirit of Place
from The Mining Journal September 19, 2011 To the Journal editor: This week the Mining Journal reported, as a lead story, Inghan County Judge Paula J. M Manderfield’s denial of a request for an injunction to stop Rio Tinto’s Kennecott … Continue reading
Earth Notes
from The Mining Journal April 22, 2011 To the Journal editor: Healthy religious communities, especially here in the Upper Peninsula, hold at the center of convictions a respect for individual conscience. That’s one of the reasons for the “quietism” of … Continue reading
Earth Gifts
from Marquette Monthly December, 2010 A secret of the living dance “I go around pitying myself, but forget I am being carried across the sky by a Great Wind.” —Ojibway saying These are uncertain times. Jobs are hard to … Continue reading
Human Rights, Rio Tinto and the Integrity of Protest
In the contentious battle unfolding around a proposed sulfide mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, the particular focus of intense opinion depends, of course, on whom you’re listening to. Most of the pro and con arguments are based in science and economics. Lost in most public debate is any reference to the moral implications of this heated public controversy. Continue reading
The Burden of Narnia
from Marquette Monthly December, 2009 Peeking through a winter’s window As darkness falls ever earlier these afternoons, those of us in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula huddle down to prepare for another winter. Along with splitting wood for our stoves and finishing … Continue reading
Inland Drilling
On the southern shore of Lake Superior, rugged edges of deep green forest merge with cliffs of sandstone and million-year-old granite to mark the northern boundary of Powell Township. For most Michigan citizens, this remains a remote, forgotten corner of the Upper Peninsula, an economically depressed region that economists often call America’s “second Appalachia.” For those who live here, it has become a battleground between an international mining company and a patchwork coalition of Continue reading