{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz","title":"Coming Down to Earth with Barbara Brown Taylor","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2851,"description":"In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with beloved author, priest, and theologian Barbara Brown Taylor about her forthcoming book, Coming Down to Earth, and the shift that happens when religious people stop looking \"up and away\" for the sacred and begin paying attention to the living world right beneath our feet. During the solitude of the pandemic, Barbara found herself listening more deeply to the 175 acres of land where she lives in rural Georgia, eventually realizing that rather than simply caring for the land, the land had been caring for her all along.\n\nThey move through the wholeness that includes the harshness of the living world, from a brown thrasher taken by a hawk to Darwin's parasitic wasp, resisting a sentimental spirituality in favor of one \"saved by the whole-truthness\" of what is. Falling in love with a place, Barbara reflects, means entering its suffering as well as its beauty, learning from decomposition and nurse logs and irrepressible new growth what seminary never taught: how to release a rescuing, storybook God and be initiated, instead, more deeply into reality itself.\n\nConnect with Barbara:\nWebsite: barbarabrowntaylor.com\nUpcoming book: Coming Down to Earth: On Being Embraced by the Soul of a Place\nBook: Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others\nMentioned in the episode:\nBook: Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer\nBook: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer\nBook: When God Was A Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World by Mark I Wallace \nPodcast: Liturgies, Myth, and the Age of the Wolf with Martin Shaw - The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz\nConnect with the Center:\nWebsite: wildspirituality.earth\nVictoria's Website: victorialoorz.com\nEmail: hello@wildspirituality.earth\nLinktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality\nInstagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality\nTimestamps:\n00:00 Introduction\n04:24...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7HzH9zp06kPt1-QRAfelWzEF5snXN59veGgjaerriqo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZjAz/YTRjNTQ0YTQ0YmE5/ODgzYjA2MTM2NjEw/NzJmZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}