The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.
In Goddess religion death is not feared but is understood to be a part of life followed by birth and renewal.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves but whose strength comes from the old trunk with solid roots in the ground.