Module Three:

The Advent of a Name

“Paying attention acknowledges that we have something to learn from intelligences other than our own.”

-Robin Wall Kimmerer

Then he said to them, ‘But who do you say that I am?’
— Luke 9:20a

Module Three: The Advent of a Name

In preparation for this week's material, please read, “Witness to the Rain” in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. In addition, consider the following:


  • When we come to the edge of reality, to moments without precedence, how do you imagine new things?

  • Are we interdependent? If so, how does that shape our naming of God? If not?

  • What emotions and/or intuitions do you encounter in Jesus’s question? What do those emotions and/or intuitions tell you?