Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast. I'm Emanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence

magazine, located on the unseated ancestral lands of the Coast Mewalk people of present-day

Marin County. Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting

ecology, culture, and spirituality.

On November 10th, amidst a citywide tube strike that had brought London to a bit of a standstill.

I spoke to a live audience at St. Ethelberger Center for Reconciliation and Peace,

a small 800-year-old stone church in the middle of the towering buildings of London's financial district.

As our year-long exploration in living with the unknown drew to a close,

I wanted to speak to the questions that emerged from the most recent edition,

as well as explore the creative possibilities that are waiting to be embodied.

At this time of deep uncertainty, driven by rapidly increasing climate change,

war, unrest, and floundering and corrupt political systems, there is an opportunity to remember

the ancient primordial covenant of relationship with the living world that offers us ground

to stand on.

When so much can be taken away at a moment's notice,

the sacred nature of creation is always there,

and is waiting for us to return to it.

The theme of this evening's talk that I want to give is about this time we're in of living with the unknown.

That is the theme of the latest print edition that Emergence has released.

And it grew out of the early days of the pandemic,

which for many of us are not that far away,

but we seem to be trying to forget them and move away from them, pretend they never happened.

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