The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast
Sara Jolena Wolcott
A sacred learning podcast traveling into the past, the future, and the present.
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Episode 29 - The shift from "paganism" to Christianity in Northern Europe: A Conversation with Prof Carole Cusack
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07/28/23 • 58 min
Prof Carole Cusack, a professor in Religious Studies at The University of Sydney, shares her research on the shift into Christianity and the loss of indigenous European traditions, which were then referred to as "pagan" traditions. We explore some of how Christianity was brought, sometimes violently, to Europe, and the subsequent shifts in spiritual, cultural, political, and geographical imagination. This is immensely significant in understanding subsequent patterns of colonization and Christianization.
1:35 - Introduction to Prof Carole Cusack
2:35 - What got you interested in the early period of medieval history?
7:30 - Conversion then vs Conversion today
17:50 - The parallels between the moment of the Christianization of Europe, and the colonization and attempted Christianization of indigenous peoples around the world in modern times.
33:00 - How much did this shift to Christianity change peoples’ life?
37:28 - “The template for conversion and for conquest and for colonization is a very ancient one.”
51:46 - Suggested resources from Dr. CusackBooks from Dr. Carole Cusack:
The Sacred in Fantastic Fandom
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith
The Sacred Tree: Ancient and Medieval Manifestations
Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality
Other resources mentioned on the podcast:
Popular Religion in Late Saxon England: Elf Charms in Context - Karen Louise Jolly
European Paganism - Ken Dowden
Bio of Prof Cusack
Carole M. Cusack is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and English Literature from the University of Sydney in 1998. In 1996, she obtained her PhD in Studies in Religion, and in 2001 she earned her Master of Education (Educational Psychology).
She has published research and books on medieval European religion, modern paganism, alternative spiritualities, etc.
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Episode 20 - Mortality, Rest, and a Spiritual Lens on Climate Change: a conversation with Ben Yosua-Davis
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11/16/22 • 62 min
Ben Yosua-Davis, Director of Applied Research, The BTS Center, sat down with hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about some of the learnings from their learning community, which is asking questions from a spiritual lens towards a climate changed world. We start with death, which is a critical element of any kind of ecological and spiritual framework, and move into some of the different aspects of learning that the BTS learning community, representing seven different organizations in the northeast, is exploring and finding.
00:45 - Ben's introduction, What is the BTS Center; the BTS center as a parable
4:21 - The question of endings as the beginning of theological education
7:03 - What does it mean for an organization to die well?
10:54 - The role of applied research in the BTS center
14:00 - The danger of the (ongoing) "savior" mentality
18:38 - The word "Apocalypse" and the various unveilings of our times
20:52 - The critical importance of creating space in organizations
21:38 - What have you been learning in the co-learning community?
31:33 - The importance of rest for organizations, as well as individuals
42:00 - Organizations are not machines but are living ecologies needing tending
55:24 - What are you ReMembering?
BTS Center offers a variety of (mostly free) programming and various offerings to spiritual leaders engaging with a climate-changed world. Check out their Climate Changed Podcast, which Ben hosts.
Ben Yosua-Davis serves on The BTS Center staff team as Director of Applied Research. For five seasons, Ben produced and hosted a podcast called “Reports from the Spiritual Frontier" which chronicled the day-to-day lives of leaders innovating new forms of spiritual community. Previously, he lived in Haverhill, MA, where he co-planted a new church called The Vine, one of the earliest mainline missional church expressions, which gathered in homes and coffee shops. Ben is a Maine native and now lives on Chebeague Island, Maine, with his family. When not spending time with his family, he directs the community chorus and delivers tins of cookies to unsuspecting neighbors.
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Listen to Climate Changed podcast hosted by Nicole Diroff and Ben Yosua-Davis.
Learn more about The BTS center by checking out their website.
Check out Ben's Facebook author page.
Follow The BTS Center on Instagram and Facebook.
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Episode 8 - Birth, Death, and Presence amidst COVID-19
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02/19/22 • 82 min
Midwife Krystina Friedlander and Death Worker Michelle Acciavatti join hostess Sara Jolena for our first episode in this season to discuss the ways in which the most significant transitions of our lives, being born and dying, are shifting during COVID-19 and the subsequent global quarantine.
Their friendship and companionship as healers and doulas at opposite ends of the spectrum shines as they find many similarities in the way in which their intimate work with our bodies is changing. In what promises to be the first of several conversations around topics of birth, death, suffering and celebration, we here deepen our understanding of what their work actually entails, the importance of unspoken intimacy, and the communal importance of both entering and leaving this precious life we share together.
Yes, we are talking explicitly here about dead bodies, blood, and grief; all of which are topics we often rather leave to the murder mysteries on our television than to frank conversations amidst ourselves. If discussions of dead bodies makes you squeemish, you might want to leave this one aside, but I invite you to journey with us.
Please feel free to visit Krystina's website (www.barakabirth.com) and Michelle's website (ending-well.com); though their work keeps them closely bound to their place (New Jersey and New Hampshire, respectfully), they both welcome conversations. I'm confident we will be hearing more on these topics and from these two gracious, loving guides as we move forward together.
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Episode 30 - Can We Do Tourism Well? ‘Discovery’, ‘Exploration’, and Different Forms of Rejuvenation with Dr. Alexis Bunten
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08/31/23 • 68 min
In this episode of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast with host Sara Jolena Wolcott and guest Dr. Alexis Bunten, we engage with questions around tourism and traveling. We
- Start with history, the colonial gaze, and its impact on today's tourism and travel ‘explorations’
- Look at the dangers of "Disneylandification"
- Consider both 'sides' (the tourist and the native) experience of cultural tourism
- Go into some basic (but often not followed) things to consider when you are the one doing the tourism/traveling
- Alexis gives some suggestions for native-led tourist organizations
Timestamps:
1:37 - Introduction to Alexis Bunten
5:48 - What Alexis learned from tracing the history of tourism and how she sees those histories shape tourism today
15:50 - What’s the difference between cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation?
19:08 - What does it mean to “Explore”?
24:03 - Disneylandification vs. Deep Cultural Learning
29:44 - Tourism today vs. tourism 20 years ago.
46:38 - How can people engage in the native-owned tourist experience?
55:00 - How can tourist guides facilitate visitors in connecting with the local culture?
Books written/co-written by Dr. Alexis:
So, How Long Have You Been Native?: Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Indigenous Tourism Movements
Join Bioneers in their next gathering on March 28-30, 2024 in Berkeley, CA
You might be interested in our previous episodes with Bioneers' co-founder Nina Simons (Lifting Up Culture Doctors) and a recent speaker at Bioneers, Erin Matiriki Carr (ReMembering the Sovereign Forest).
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Episode 9 - Bless the Dark; A conversation with Rev. Rhetta Morgan
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02/26/22 • 63 min
In this episode, spiritual activist, singing healer, and interfaith minister Reverend Rhetta Morgan shares music, poetry, and conversation with Reverend Sara Jolena Wolcott . On the even of the winter solstice, we enter the dark, meandering in its many meanings.
Some key points:
1:39 - Introduction of Rev Rhetta Morgan
2:20 - Sara and Rhetta recite and sing Rilke’s poem on darkness; they let themselves wonder and wander around Rilke's insights.
11:55 - Rhetta’ shares some of her work and insights about the Dark
14:50 - The (false?) dichotomy between the light and the dark
23:00 - What have we projected onto the dark? Colonization and racial injustice
31:50 - The testimony to the multiplicity and the wonder that is possible in the dark.
53:40 - How do we engage with darkness differently? Practices
58:09 - We acknowledge the power of Circular Time Calendars for helping us engage more deeply with darkness
If you've enjoyed this podcast, here are some other offerings that might be of interest....
Another episode with Rev. Rhetta Morgan and Midwife Krystina Friedlander
Rhetta's upcoming in person retreat at Pendle Hill, just outside of Philadelphia, USA, on Feb 4-6, Blessing Darkness
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Rev Rhetta's bio
Reverend Rhetta Morgan is a singing healer, spiritual activist, and interfaith minister who has been gathering tools for healing and inspiration for over 40 years. Through her gifts of prayer, poetry, facilitation, and sermonizing she cultivates hope and nurtures connection in her community as a pathway back to belonging and wholeness. As a facilitator and coach, Rhetta is known for her ability to support others to be bold, heal their self-limiting beliefs, and integrate their internal healing with their social movement work. This support is essential to cultivate the powerful spiritual activism that is needed in these times.
As an active facilitator in the Philadelphia region and beyond, Reverend Rhetta currently works with the Unitarian Universalist National Ministers Association, the Center for Contemporary Mysticism, the People of the Global Majority in the Outdoors, Nature, and Environment and more. She also founded and leads the Ecclesia Spirit Interfaith Community as well as Ritual for Change Makers, an 8-month program for activists seeking to renew their spiritual connection to the transcendent and to land.
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Episode 28 - Cultural Burning
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05/31/23 • 75 min
Indigenous elder Ron Goode and Pastor Katerina Gea join hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about an indigenous approach to fire management, frequently referred to as Cultural Burning. We delve into the sacred use of fire, how these kinds of preventative burns play a critical role in preventing wildfires, and fire's sacred connection to water and land.
Timestamp:
1:30 - Introduction
4:46 - What do we mean by cultural burn?
21:27 - Fire shapes Water
29:34 - Linking the four elements
34:22 - The forest plan: recreation sustainability and economic sustainability
49:09 - How the State's fire agency shifted its decision from prohibiting to promoting cultural burning
58:23 - Pastor Katerina's experience in cultural burning
1:04:45 promo - "The spirits are here and the spirits are listening to us"
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Episode 27 - The Dirty Goddess
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02/28/23 • 19 min
In this episode of the Mythcasting section of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast, hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott tells a story of one of the forgotten goddesses of the greek mythology.
Baubo (and her Boar), a peculiar deity who is most certainly older than the Greek pantheon, but who still manages to survive the agricultural revolution in the Fertile Crescent and plays an absolutely essential role into one of the most important Greco-Roman stories, that of Persephone's theft by the God of the Underworld, Hades, and her (eventual) rescue by Demeter, the Earth Goddess whose mourning of her daughter leads the whole Earth into Winter and whose ability to find her and bring her back leads to Spring.
Background Music by: Nik Kemmer
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Episode 26 - Edgewalking, churches, and the wild: A conversation with Rev. Victoria loorz
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02/17/23 • 72 min
Author and founding pastor of the first Church of the Wild Rev. Victoria Loorz join Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about being an edgewalker, the possibility of Christianity, what it's like to be a parent of a climate activist, and her latest book: Church of the Wild.
3:42 - Delving into some beautiful writing: the prologue to Victoria's book, the church of the wild
9:33 - Experiencing a call
11:13 - Victoria on the book, ‘Restoring a Kinship worldview’ by Darcia Narvaez and Wahinkpe Topa
14:59- Being an edgewalker
31:11- Learning the process of transformation
37:05 - Bringing people into the wild
44:03 - Delving into the word “Logos” : the conversation
47:07 - What does it mean for the conversation / Sermio to be at all times?
50:48 - What is possible within Christianity.... and life?
52:24 - Raising children in the age of climate change?
Grab a copy of the book Church for the Wild.
Visit Victoria’s website to learn more about her work.
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Episode 25 - Releasing hierarchy; gaining empowered organizations: A conversation with CEO Robin Cook Roth on Holacracy
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02/01/23 • 60 min
How can an organization with values of equity shift away from its own embedded hierarchy? In this conversation, we speak with Robin Cook Roth who was recently the CEO of the UK company, Traidcraft to talk about how he led his organization out of the hierarchy. We discuss how holacracy's process of self-management, distribution of power, roles, and responsibilities led him to experience a level of freedom and joy in his own work, and how it has helped the company live out its values. We get into some of the spiritual dimensions of this work, and some of what it means to remember and reenchant the organizations where so many people spend so much time.
1:37 - Learn more about Robin Cook Roth
5:25 - What is self-management?
12:51 - Who decides what’s the appropriate distribution of power?
18:10 - Tradecraft's transition to Holacracy
25:00 - Sara Jolena on The Dawn of Everything
30:46 - What is the role of power as it relates to spiritual power displaying itself in an organization?
34:50 - How was it like to give up power?
38:30 -Relinquishing power in the work of decolonization
43:45 - How does Holacracy intersect with suppliers?
52:38 - What are some initial steps and resources to self-management?
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
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Episode 13 - Sacred Brewing and Circular Time: A honey-sweet conversation with Heather Wolf
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03/26/22 • 70 min
Brewing, folk arts, circular time, fermentation, and revitalizing regenerative cultures.... we delve into the magic and complexity of brewing with herbalist, singer and folk artist Heather Wolf.
About our conversation partner, Heather Wolf:
Heather Wolf is an herbal brewess, folk herbalist, teacher, singer & performing artist from an island in the Salish Sea. Her work is devoted to reviving folk wisdom traditions, and a remembrance of our ancestral heritage and sacred relationships. With decades of study and craft of herbal brewing traditions, Heather most recently launched The Brewess Underground, a private brew club centering on dry herbal meads and botanical honey liqueurs, released on the Equinoxes and Solstices.
Her herbal brews, including her honey-kombuchas, have been much beloved throughout the American Northwest. In addition to brewing, she is re-learning her own Sephardic Jewish & British Isles ancestral songlines and partaking in the revitalizing of folk traditions. She writes of folk traditions, "Folk wisdom is carried by the collective, belongs to the whole, is the vital foundation of every healthy culture. These arts relate us directly with our own beings, each other, and the sacred world from which our existence is emergent and interdependent."
About this show:
00-3:40 - Introductions and initial music
5:28 - How does brewing enable us to unwind in time?
6:50 - What is inebriation?
8:18 - What is mead?
10:48 - What actually happens in fermentation?
11:39 Heather’s process of fermentation; thinking about alcohol
15:50: Culturing the culture
23:41 How is time interfacing with the creation of a brew?
28:40 Some revitalizations in our time
32: 10 Brewing and circular time
50:38 Fairytale time
45:00 Heather Wolf reading and singing the song, Old Growth Fairytale, that she co-created with Nicholas Moon and their band, Wild Revival
54:30 Brewing Brewess, and suggestions for your practice
Relevent links:
Join our upcoming Circular Time course
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Heather’s website (which includes links to her music)
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Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/wildrevivalband/
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https://www.facebook.com/wildrevivalband
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The podcast is about Society & Culture, Spirituality, Ecology, Religion & Spirituality, Environment, Podcasts and Education.
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The episode title 'Episode 29 - The shift from "paganism" to Christianity in Northern Europe: A Conversation with Prof Carole Cusack' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast is 62 minutes.
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Episodes of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast are typically released every 14 days, 3 hours.
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