Secular Dharma and Political Activism Group

Helena Norberg-Hodge examines how the scale, speed and distance of the modern economy have broken our relationships with community, nature, place and one another. She asks what it would take to move from a path of disconnection to reconnection, ultimately recovering our deep interdependence with the rest of life. This is an invitation to see more clearly, understand more deeply, recover our spiritual roots, and discover new possibilities for action. Exploring localization offers a practical pathway towards both inner and outer systemic change.

Kaira Jewel Lingo and Fr. Adam Bucko join Rev. Chelsea MacMillan to explore interfaith spiritual care in response to the climate crisis. Register by Oct 26. Financial assistance deadline Oct 20.

In this five-week study series, we’ll explore the hypothesis that the monastic Saṅgha functions—in ancient India and today—as an active social intervention: offering genuine mobility and liberation to people otherwise locked into their conditions by birth. And we’ll turn that lens on our own communities: How do wealth, race, education, and class shape who gets to practice and lead today? How can we make this Dhamma we love more effective as a response to systemic oppression?