“Repairing the World”

Late last year, I was invited to speak to the Canterbury and District Interfaith Action Forum during Interfaith Week, to offer a Pagan perspective on how social action might contribute to the idea of “repairing the world”.

In Jewish teaching, any act of social justice by adult, child, student, artist, industrialist or environmentalist is seen as 'tikkun olam', a contribution to repairing the world, and on this event, I was among speakers from Humanism, Christianity and Buddhism to discuss different perspectives on this.

Watch my contribution on the video below.

Following this contribution, there was a general discussion about how interfaith communities can engage in and support social action and what that might look like. People of many faiths could resonate with the ideas I shared about our relationship with the land, and waters, and could recognise similar perspectives in their own faiths.

This has inspired a local interfaith action for our local river, the River Stour, which faces multiple threats of contamination and habitat destruction. I look forward to sharing more details about this with you later in the year.