Given the enormity of the challenges we face, how can a man who went off to the woods for two years – woods he almost burned down himself a year earlier – tell us anything about the Anthropocene, global warming, and the threat of extinction? And what advice can someone born over two hundred years … Continue reading Walden in the Anthropocene

Many of Emerson’s later essays deal with the topics of aging, death and immortality. There is much wisdom in these essays for us—young or old—as we confront our own mortality. Click here to listen to the reading and sermon. Click here to read the sermon.