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Showing posts with label Kingsolver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kingsolver. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2014

A Critical Reading Of Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior from a Unitarian Universalist's perspective now available from Amazon.com

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A critical reading of Barbara Kingsolver’s book, Flight Behavior, from a Unitarian Universalist’s perspective explores the topics that Fight...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Flight Behavior: The moral of the story

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At the end of Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, Dellarobia, and her 6 year old son, Preston, leave the house to walk to the neighbor...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Unitarian Universalism is a religion for the mature, the courageous, the brave

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Dr. Ovid Byron, the entomologist's wife, Juliet, an anthropologist,  has come from California to visit with her husband as he does his...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014

Studying climate change is the work of science not the work of conscience.

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Dr. Ovid Byron is an entomologist, a scientist, and he, patiently, explains to Dellarobia, the role of science in our contemporary world. ...
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Friday, July 25, 2014

Sitting the death vigil for the extinction of a species

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Dellarobia and Dr. Ovid Byron are up on the mountain collecting data. It had been cold the night before and there is a question of whether...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Can we depend on the proponents of predatory capitalism to save us?

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Dr. Ovid Byron is the entomologist from California who has come to Tennessee to study the butterflies. He has set up his lab in Cub and De...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Mercy and repentance are appropriate at this time in the planet's history.

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Dellarobia's son, Preston, goes to kindergarten where he has met a classmate, Josefina Delgado, who is a daughter in a migrant farm fa...
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Saturday, July 19, 2014

Venal or precious, secular or holy?

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From Chapter 4 of Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver:      "I didn't mind when it was just people from church coming up,...
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Thursday, July 17, 2014

The seed of reverence is born

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"So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian; in the event of an emergency, call the Lord. Unlike all those who called on Jesus dai...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Co-creating with God the future of the planet

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Dellarobia, Cub, Hester, Bear, and Bear's friend, Norm are still up on the mountain taking in the marvel of the butterfly roost in the t...
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Sunday, July 13, 2014

Saint of sinner? The Lord works in strange ways

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Dellarobia has gone up on the mountain for a tryst with her lover in a hunting shack when she first saw the Monarch butterflies, King Bill...
Friday, July 11, 2014

How will we deal with climate change: like sheep or mature men and women?

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In the novel, Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver, the main character, Dellarobia, has been helping with the sheep shearing on the farm ...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Money or butterflies, that is the question?

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Bear Turnbow, Cub's father and Dellarobia's father-in-law, is planning on selling the trees in the woods that the Monarch butterfl...
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Monday, July 7, 2014

"Now you're talking crazy. Is this something religious?

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Dellarobia is talking to her best friend, Dovey, a friend she has had since childhood, in whom she confides just about everything. She is ...
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Saturday, July 5, 2014

Nature is not to be dominated because it is part of us and us part of her.

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Dellarobia, standing on that mountain top, seeing the Monarch butterflies has a mystical experience of sorts. Kingsolver writes in her nov...
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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Trees glowed with an orange blaze. "Jesus God", she said again.

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Does it seem odd that Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver was chosen as a book to discuss for a month on UU A Way Of Life? It won't ...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Do people want to do the right environmental thing or make money?

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Lester R. Brown asks in his essay, "Ecopsychology and the Environmental Revolution" in the book, Ecopsychology: Restoring The Eart...
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