Keeping the faith: Lee Rhiannon on balancing atheism and spirituality
PHOTO: Senator Rhiannon sums up her political focus in three words - equality, environment and democracy. (ABC News: Alexandra Beech)
By Alexandra Beech
Updated Tue at 6:06pm
She walks the corridors of power, but Lee Rhiannon's focus is the green spaces she glimpses through the windows.
The Greens senator from NSW still reads botany books in bed and keeps a list of the species of birds she spots from within the walls of Parliament House (she's just reached double figures).
Rhiannon is a firm atheist her parents were atheists and told her school she wouldn't be going to religious classes.
But she says she has a strong sense of wonder at nature and believes in "non-god-centred spirituality".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-03/keeping-the-faith-lee-rhiannon/8455882
A fascinating profile. I can't imagine a person like this in the U.S. Senate, let alone one speaking comfortably to the press.