“Are you a bruja (witch)?” I asked Abuela Petra on a hot summer day in New York. I wanted to know more about her fortune telling business.
Abuela stared at me with a distant gaze. I felt drops of sweat glistening on my forehead as I remembered Abuela’s devotion to the Virgin Mary. In a tremulous voice I asked: “Did I insult you?”
"Why is the ceiba sacred?" I learned in school that the ceiba pentandra was Puerto Rico's official national tree. Mrs. Flores, my elementary school teacher, explained that the Taínos, the island's Native Indigenous habitants, considered the ceiba a sacred tree.
Erin Lale
Fellow faculty at Harvard Divinity School posted an open letter to Wolpe in response to his article. It's available on this page, below the call for p...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. The Wild Hunt has a roundup of numerous responses on its site, but it carried this one as a separate article. It is an accoun...
Erin Lale
Here's another response. This one is by a scholar of paganism. It's unfortunately a Facebook post so this link goes to Facebook. She posted the text o...
Erin Lale
Here's another link to a pagan response to the Atlantic article. I would have included this one in my story too if I had seen it before I published it...
Janet Boyer
I love the idea of green burials! I first heard of Recompose right before it launched. I wish there were more here on the East Coast; that's how I'd l...