“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” Rumi
Our ecological future depends on remembering and honoring those roots.
This week, reflect on wisdom passed down across generations.
#SacredEcology #IntergenerationalHandshake #Rumi #ReligionAndEcology #Fore
The latest Spotlights episode is live:
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
At the Yale Forum, we believe in dissolving false boundaries — between intellect and intuition, ecology and theology, data and reverence.
How are you bridging the sacred and the scientific in your work or worldview?
#AlanWatts #ReligionAndEcology #ThoughtLeadership #SacredKnowledge #Fore
The climate conversation often collapses into politics. But under it all is something older: shared ground.
We work with scholars who are reframing ecology not just as science, but as sacred commons.
Because when the land is sacred, scholarship becomes stewardship.
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
Hope is not wishful thinking — it's a discipline. And within the academy, that discipline is evolving.
A new generation of scholars is refusing the split between intellectual inquiry and ecological responsibility.
This is what it looks like when wisdom goes public.
#Fore #ReligionAndEcology
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s instruction.
The Earth has always known how to begin again.
Now it’s our turn to remember how.
#ThomasBerry #TheGreatWork #SacredResilience #ReligionAndEcology #EcozoicHope
“When the mind can engage reality as a question rather than imposing prefabricated answers on it, then one can participate creatively in evolution.” Ilia Delio
May we remain question-keepers — not just in thought, but in action.
#SacredCuriosity #DeepWisdom #ReligionAndEcology
The intergenerational handshake is less about passing on answers and more about passing along gratitude: for the field, for our teachers, for the Earth beneath our feet.
How do you practice perpetual thanksgiving in your ecological work?
#IntergenerationalWisdom #ReligionAndEcology #Fore
Faith isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s a whisper that keeps you going when nothing else makes sense.
In the face of climate crisis, injustice, and despair, faith becomes more than belief—it becomes courage.
Courage to speak. To act. To plant. To rebuild.
#yale #fore #ReligionAndEcology
This isn’t just ecological wisdom—it’s existential truth.
Our disconnection from the living Earth isn’t only a planetary crisis.
It’s a spiritual one.
#ThomasBerry #SacredCommunity #EcologicalSpirituality #MoreThanHumanWorld #GaianWisdom #Interbeing #ReligionAndEcology #TheGreatWork
The days stretch longer. The Earth leans into light.
This is the season of ripening — of growth seen and unseen.
What wisdom is blooming in your soul?
We enter this month with reverence, gratitude,
and a renewed call to care for our common home.
#SacredEarth #SpiritualEcology #ReligionAndEcology
“The climate crisis is not only a scientific and political issue—it is also a moral and spiritual one.” Karenna Gore
The soul of Earth cries out, too.
May we listen with our hearts as well as our minds.
#KarennaGore #SpiritualEcology #MoralEcology #EarthEthics #ReligionAndEcology
Biodiversity is not just biological richness, it's sacred relationship.
Each species lost is a voice silenced.
Each act of protection is a hymn of belonging.
How will you honor the sacred web of life this week?
#BiodiversityWeek #FaithForNature #SpiritualEcology #SacredSpecies #ReligionAndEcology
Identity is not isolation.
We are stitched into the fabric of the Earth.
What does it mean to lead from communion, not separation?
#MaryEvelynTucker #SpiritualEcology #EarthCommunity #FaithAndPlanet #ReligionAndEcology
Goethe reminds us: commitment activates something bigger.
Not hustle. Not control.
Alignment.
What sacred commitment are you ready to make?
#GoetheWisdom #SpiritualCommitment #FaithInAction #SacredMomentum #ReligionAndEcology
Alienation is the root. Intimacy is the way back.
What does spiritual intimacy with the Earth look like for you?
#ThomasBerry #SpiritualIntimacy #Ecospirituality #ReligionAndEcology
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation a reason to hope.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hope is not sentiment. It is vision, offered forward.
A sacred responsibility to those who come next.
#TeilhardDeChardin #HopeInAction #FaithAndFuture #ReligionAndEcology #YaleForum
“The Earth is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects. Thomas Berry
Not dominion. Not extraction.
Relationship. Reverence. Reciprocity.
#ThomasBerry #SpiritualEcology #SacredEarth #ForumAtYale #ReligionAndEcology
“We must say, not that the Earth belongs to us, but that we belong to the Earth.” Thomas Berry
Belonging changes everything.
It shifts us from dominion to reverence, from ownership to kinship.
#ThomasBerry #SpiritualEcology #BelongingToEarth #SacredEarth #ReligionAndEcology
“We will go into the future as a single sacred community, or we will perish in the desert.” Thomas Berry
The path ahead is not only ecological—it is spiritual.
A shared planet. A shared responsibility.
🔗 fore.yale.edu
#ThomasBerry #EcoSpirituality #ReligionAndEcology #SpiritualEcology
“The climate crisis is not only a scientific and political issue—it is also a moral and spiritual one.” Karenna Gore
The soul of Earth cries out, too.
May we listen with our hearts as well as our minds.
#KarennaGore #SpiritualEcology #MoralEcology #EarthEthics #ReligionAndEcology
“We are the universe reflecting on itself.” Thomas Berry
A reminder that consciousness is not separate from nature—
it is nature, becoming aware.
What happens when we live as if this were true?
#ThomasBerry #ReligionAndEcology #EcoTheology #YaleForum
Explore the worldview of Thomas Berry in a new online course launching May 20.
This course invites us to reimagine Earth, ethics, and our role in the unfolding cosmos. journeyoftheuniverse.org
#ThomasBerry, #WorldviewCourse, #DeeptimeNetwork, #SpiritualEcology, #FaithForEarth, #ReligionAndEcology,
🌌 Thomas Berry reminds us:
“The universe is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.”
This quote continues to guide our work — and our journey.
It invites us to live with reverence, not dominance, in relationship, not separation.
#ThomasBerry #SpiritualEcology #ReligionAndEcology
Hats off to the Southern New England Conference, United Church of Christ https://buff.ly/3CNk5pS —and YDS alum Isaac Lawson ’02 S.T.M., who serves as an Area Conference Minister—for taking action to preserve an important piece of land for #conservation in Ashland, Mass. #religionandecology
