Fire has a special place in every religion, often as a portal between the solid world and the spirit world. We hear that we have “domesticated” fire but it is not our pet, as we learn when fires spread through parts of the country. We’ll be talking about the sacred and dangerous aspects of flame.
john (lower case intentional) Snodgrass is a frequent and popular speaker at UU Amherst. An instructor in Religion at Canisius University, john is also a playwright and author of many books, the most recent being Shakespeare’s Goddess.