Green Theology Course – Six Weeks In and Wrapping Up This Weekend
Our Green Theology course wraps up at the end of this week. We have held a full, exciting discussion of why the environmental crisis is a fundamentally religious issue. We’ve explored the crisis from three dimensions – seeing, judging, and acting. Those who participated in each Wednesday course have a broad understanding of people’s choices in life and their moral implications – virtuous and vicious. I’ve learned a lot and had a lot of fun.
And now…
Join us for a great weekend workshop on “Green Theology”, April 29 and 30!
On Friday evening, Mike Hogue, Meadville Professor and Templeton Prize winner, will lead us in a discussion of the environmental crisis as a fundamental religious issue. On Saturday, Reverend Karen will lead a workshop, offer another short talk, and then a second workshop. The first workshop will have a moral or ethical focus. We will think together through the ecojustice principles discussed at the Friday night talk, asking questions about the virtues and practices those principles would require in order to be realized. The purpose of this first workshop is to help participants to develop a personal ecojustice mission statement. Following the first workshop on Saturday morning, Reverend Karen will offer another short talk that will bridge over to the Saturday afternoon workshop. This talk and its complementary workshop will help participants to understand and develop a theological frame for the ecojustice mission statements they developed earlier. The whole of the day will be primarily discussion based.
Mike Hogue will also give a two-part sermon on Sunday, May 1. Each part of the sermon has a theme of sorts. This first part of the sermon is about the joy of discovering oneself as a part of nature. The second part is about the terror and responsibility of discovering oneself as a part of nature. Ideally, these parts would be divided by a song and a time of silent meditation.
We look forward to your participation this weekend!
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