Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emmanuel Vaughn Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

In each issue, we feature in-depth interviews, narrated essays, and stories, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Thank you. culture and spirituality. Just as the sacred U-tree grows in the churchyard,

the roots of religious belief and the sacredness of nature

were once closely entwined.

In this article, staff writer Chelsea Steinerour Scudder profiles theologian Martin Palmer

and his work to engage local faith traditions in recovering narratives of love and care for local ecologies.

The U, Texas Pekada of the family Taxacia is a conifer native to the United Kingdom. Growing up to 20 meters, or 66 feet tall and sometimes taller,

with peeling auburn bark and small straight needles that grow in two dark green rows,

ewes provide habitat for the gold crest and other small birds.

Every part of the yew is poisonous, with the exception of the bright, red, fleshy,

arile's that encase the seeds, food for the blackbird and the missile thrush.

Ues are the oldest living things in Britain, considered ancient only when they reach the age of

900. Some are believed to be at least 5,000 years old. News carry an air of the secretive, and their

age is notoriously difficult to determine because of their ability to withstand extraordinarily

long periods of dormancy,

and then mysteriously decide that the time is right for new growth.

Some of Britain's oldest ewes have witnessed Roman expeditions led by Julius Caesar,

ancient Celtic ceremonies, Anglo-Saxon conquest, and the Black Death.

The fallen giant is one of the ancient ewes of Druids Grove in Norbury Park, south of London.

It was partially uprooted in 1720, and for the next 300 years it lay still,

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