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The experience of seeing a total solar eclipse, like the one earlier this week, is an entrypoint to wonder and amazement. For the religious naturalist, scientific understanding goes hand in hand with embodied awe.

The experience of seeing a total solar eclipse, like the one earlier this week, is an entrypoint to wonder and amazement. For the religious naturalist, scientific understanding goes hand in hand with embodied awe.

Ecologist Baba Dioum said, "In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught." This Earth Day we join congregations across our Pacific Western Region in reading -- and writing -- love letters to the future. What do you want to tell the generations ahead? What do you want to remind yourself of in the year to come about your deep love for the earth? In doing this work, we begin by imagining a hopeful, just, and thriving future – a future we are in love and relationship with – and then we set a path to work for it. Our 9:00am service on the same theme will be for all ages.