“What do the trees know that we have yet to learn?” Sean McDonagh asks of readers in his article, “Forty Shades of Green” (Sojourners, November 2014). By disregarding the natural world in biblical studies, McDonagh argues, we have lost our connection to our roots in creation and the mysticism they hold.
Watch the video below and hear from professor and forest ecologist Suzanne Simard of the University of British Columbia speak on the power of “Mother Trees” and the role they play supporting whole ecosystems.
This appears in the November 2014 issue of Sojourners
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