Erin Dunigan
Erin Dunigan is a photographer, writer, gardener, permaculture enthusiast, rainwater-harvester, runner, preacher, foodie, and a Presbyterian minister who leads a monthly gathering of atheists, agnostics, and other “spiritual but not religious” called Not Church.
Bio last updated March 22nd, 2019.
Articles by Erin Dunigan
The Induced Meandering of the Lenten Season
By Erin Dunigan
March 21, 2019
Erin Dunigan writes about a practice of rainwater harvesting: induced meandering. During the Lent season, practicing induced meandering spiritually offers nourishment, she writes.
Rather than rush from the celebrations of Christmas and the season of Epiphany which follows, directly to the new life, resurrection, and rebirth of Easter, Lent provides a speed bump in the path of the Christian calendar Perhaps it is a downhill dirt path that, with each rain, gets cut deeper; add speed bumps in the form of rocks or dirt to help slow the water down, to encourage it to spread out as it travels