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Sacred World: Megan Mulliner

Honorable Mention for Inspiring Learning Contest 2024


A hop, skip and a 16 hour plane ride landed me in the dead middle of the Australian outback. I saw almost immediately the plentiful reasons for life to avoid the harsh reality of that environment. Yet the Aboriginal people have been there for at least 65,000 years, treating the land with an awe-inspiring reverence. Take Uluru, for instance. To a tourist, it's a unique rock, but to the Aborigines it is sacred. They showed me how to love God through the land. Science showed me the outback, but the outback showed me God.