Presenters: Rev. Dr. H. Daniel Zacharias (associate professor of New Testament Studies at Acadia Divinity College), and Dr. Damian Costello (director of postgraduate studies at NAIITS: An Indigenous Learning Community)
March 9, 2023

Praying with Sweetgrass: Becoming Naturalized to Place

In Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer helps us to see other species as relatives. In this webinar, we examine the main themes of Braiding Sweetgrass and further discern the spiritual implications of these relationships for people of settler descent. By uncovering analogous intercultural readings of the scriptures and practices in the Judeo-Christian tradition, including sweetgrass itself (a sacred Northern European plant), they examine how to engage Indigenous wisdom without appropriation and in conjunction with work for right relationship with Indigenous communities.

Webinar sponsored by the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry