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but whether faith communities have something irreplaceable to offer that no solar company, policymakers, or tech startup can replicate.
What's more: you'll learn what this means for your context: your faith community, your neighborhood, the place where you are rooted.
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Where do you start with making a difference in a climate-changed world?
On Thursday, April 30, at 7:00 – 8:30pm ET, you'll hear all about how twelve churches in northern New England discerned our communities’ unique role in a climate-changed world – not whether we should engage the climate crisis,
Many who have the opportunity to leave our planet behind for a moment return with a profoundly changed sense of planetary values and priorities.
May it take less than leaving this home behind for our hearts to adjust – to soften and make way for the sacred longer view.
They also dive into the biological “fight or flight” responses triggered by the #climatecrisis, and how we can look to our ancestors and the “more-than-human world" for models of resilience and survival. Listen wherever you get your podcasts:
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As we navigate a world that feels increasingly like an “extended apocalypse,” Nicole and Autumn reflect on our last episode's talk with climate chaplain Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner.
Their conversation alights on parenting, martial arts, and caring for one another in a world hungry for freedoms.
A Sense of Belonging, explores how sensory perception can help restore our relationship with the Earth. tricycle.org/events/the-b... #climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #faithandclimate #spiritualecology #earth #sacredearth #climateaction #sustainability
The Buddhism & Ecology Summit, put on by Tricycle Magazine begins today (April 20) and goes through April 23. This is a donation-based, virtual event series exploring how Buddhist thought and practice can inform our response to the ecological challenges of our time. This year’s theme,
at the Ashokan Center. This program will address climate science and policy, bioregionalism, environmental and climate justice, spiritual and religious perspectives on ecological belonging, and the power of collective action and moral courage.
June 12-13. centerforearthethics.org/spirit-of-pl...
How do we recognize and honor our innate belonging with the Earth? How is this sense of ecological belonging a spiritual and religious matter?
Our friends at The Center for Earth Ethics will explore these questions and more at our faith, spirituality and climate training in June
Wednesday, May 20 | 7pm – 8:30pm ET | Online | $20. Scholarships available.
Register here: thebtscenter.org/lilacinmay.
#poetry #climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #spiritualecology #earth #climatehope #cartoons #comics
Is art a luxury in an era of polycrisis?
If not, then what is the responsibility of the artist? The audience?
Join renowned artists Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (poet), Madeleine Jubilee Saito (cartoonist), and Aly Halpert (musician) for a breathtaking evening of art, resistance, and courageous love.
That helps other folks find this podcast, too.
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to inform us for a time of uncertainties
And a very special treat: Catherine Pierce reading for us her haunting poem "Anthropocene Pastoral."
Let us know what you think! Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
how we are all descendants of people who survived "the end of the world"
– The transition from climate alarmism to a practice of "tending, mending, and befriending"
– Practical steps to accompany others through climate distress without trying to resolve it
– Meaningful wisdom from Jewish thinkers
Rabbi Ora Nitkin-Kaner is a climate-change chaplain specializing in "unfixable" grief. This conversation between Rabbi Ora and Climate Changed host Autumn Brown explores:
– The power of naming our climate grief to move from isolation to shared reality
– Ancestral resilience:
Tonight at 7pm, come to FCC #Camden, ME, to hear from Luke Kemp of @cser.bsky.social @ Cambridge.
His bestseller, Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal #Collapse, is haunting + energizing. If you're in the business of generating a gritty, realistic hope, we hope to see you there!
led by Rev. Ash Temin and Rev. Eileen Gebbie. Registration includes free entrance to our spring event feat. poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, artist Madeleine Jubilee Saito, and musician Aly Halpert.
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Poetry is a powerful vessel of transport and transformation. This morsel by children's author Marilyn Singer is an invitation into the perspective of a non-human friend.
If this poem captivated you, then we invite you to Poetry + The Prophetic Voice, a 6-week book study
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Rev. Alison Cornish, The BTS Center's Chaplaincy Initiative Coordinator, finds a warning in a piece of public art.
"Pretending they don’t exist is costly, and yet confronting them also comes with a cost. It is not easy to be honest with ourselves when our own comfort is at stake."
Your anger is telling you that life on earth deserves better than to teeter on the edge of a knife wielded by puppet-string operators. If your prayers are tinged with spittle, let them come forth in honesty.
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Did you, too, wake up in a world where nuclear genocide did not occur at the whim of some plutocrats' ego? Did you wake up in a world where you, your loved ones, your civilization, your nation, were spared a man-made disaster whose impact would follow no geopolitical boundaries?
that he predicts we'll be seeing more and more in a climate-changed future.
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In S4E1, Tory Stephens and Autumn Brown list a couple times when speculative fiction "prefigures" what happens in our world – the internet, for one. And then Tory shares something totally novel
Resurrection is slippery, wriggling, wet – a mess and a mystery more often than it is sunlight streaming through white linens. To our kin who celebrate this holiday, we wish an Eastertide of new and renewing life.
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but you will be treated to joy-filled music, moving stories, and of course: the profound findings of this research and what it means for –your– faith communities.
Thursday, April 30, 7:00 – 8:30pm ET • Zoom • Free
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For two years, we’ve been researching the unique role churches can play in a climate- changed world. Now we’re ready to share our findings with you.
Come to a research presentation like none other. We won't have cheese cubes and club crackers (though you can bring your own to the virtual event),
With appreciation to all who have made The BTS Center what it is now, today we are announcing our new name:
Kairos – Planet Over Profit (K-POP)
We hope that this more clearly states what we're about as an organization.
