"What would it mean to go deep with each other? What are the scales of intimacy and the actual practices that would teach us how to care for each other?" - Alexis Pauline Gumbs
"I believe the Earth is dreaming us into a new way of seeing, a new way of being, if we will favor our senses and receive what is coming to us through heartbreak and love." - Terry Tempest Williams
Join us on Sunday, May 3rd for Radical Reverence: Practicing Kinship with Earth and Each Other, a conversation with beloved writer, scholar and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs (author of Undrowned and Survival is a Promise) and celebrated conservationist, writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams (author of Refuge and The Glorians).
In a time when so much is uncertain and unraveling, we are being called to remember something ancient and essential: we belong to a living world. Beneath the noise of our age, the Earth is still speaking—through trees, wind, mountains, mammals, and winged-ones—inviting us to listen more deeply, to soften into relationship, and to rediscover our place within the great web of life. What might it mean to cultivate a practice of radical reverence—a way of being rooted in care, humility, and kinship with the more-than-human world?
Drawing on decades of writing, activism, and spiritual imagination, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Terry Tempest Williams invite us to explore the wisdom of oceans, deserts, animals and wild landscapes as teachers for this moment in history. Together, we will reflect on how deep attention to the living world can awaken courage, restore hope, and nurture the relational practices that cultivate love, healing, justice, and renewal.
This conversation is an invitation to slow down and listen—to the Earth, to one another, and to the quiet knowing within us that another way of being is possible. In the presence of these two luminous voices, we will discover how reverence can become a living practice: a way of remembering our belonging and nurturing the relationships that make life possible.