Reading a Life Backwards

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.

While it may have been hiding under “rule of law” or “free market”, colonialism and supremacy function as the scaffolding of the industrial capitalist world. This series is an invitation to decolonize our mind, body, and heart. We will deepen our conscious and unconscious awareness of the systemic patterns of power. We will be working on how to avoid replicating tools of the dominant system, moving away from performative action and care, and centering underrepresented voices.

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?