A Soul Question for Our Time: What Does it Mean to Be Human in a Radically Warming Climate? (Via Zoom)

December 5, 6:30pm-8:00pm (Central Time)

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Registration Deadline: December 1 (A Zoom link will be emailed to you on December 2.)

Climate change is not in the future, but is happening now. We witness daily to droughts, heatwaves, flooding, storms, food insecurity and growing national and international refugees. We live in a time of grief from the loss and, at the same moment, hold beauty of living in a holy time. How can we grow in an apprenticeship to grief and fling open our hearts to compassion and beauty? Explore the questions, insights and ways forward on this sacred journey as a human.

“Until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep… we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again… I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”—Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.

Sister Joan Brown, OSF, lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she serves as the Executive Director of New Mexico Interfaith Power and Light (NMIPL). NMIPL is a national faith-based organization, working in more than 40 states to address climate justice. Originally from a small family farm in Kansas that still operates, her life has always revolved around the love of and care for creation and social justice. Her BA is from the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, KS, and she hold a Master’s degree in Religion and Philosophy and Cosmology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She believes that climate change is the greatest ethical, spiritual, and moral concern of our time, intersecting with many other concerns like poverty, racial justice, immigration, refugees, health and intergenerational justice. Climate justice work has been a focus for decades and led her to participate as an NGO in several UN COP meetings, including Paris in 2015. She was one of twelve recipients of the 2015 White House Champions of Change award for faith leaders working on climate change.

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