Spirituality Without Politics Is Lame

“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,

make of our lives a study, as if learning natural history

or music, that we should begin

with the simple exercises first

and slowly go on trying

the hard ones, practicing till strength

and accuracy became one with the daring

to leap into transcendence …

– And in fact we can’t live like that: we take on

everything at once before we’ve even begun

to read or mark time, we’re forced to begin

in the midst of the hardest movement,

the one already sounding as we are born.”

— Adrienne Rich, “Transcendental Etude”

In light of the hate and violence seen this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, I feel it’s important to raise again an issue which is frequently debated both in Pagan and Religious Naturalist circles: the relationship between religion and politics or between spirituality and activism.

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