Fw: Upcoming "Creation Care" Events: National Cathedral

[Kathleen O'Neil]

Hi Folks,

The National Cathedral will be holding some events with the theme "Creation Care" that you might find interesting - see below for more details. 

Also, we're going to send out a Doodle Poll soon to see when we should have our next meeting. Please respond when you see it. 

Regards,

Kathleen & David

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Shakespeare, Lyndon" <LShake...@cathedral.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:06 PM
Subject: Upcoming "Creation Care" Events: National Cathedral

Dear Colleagues and Neighbors –

 

Our Creation Care year continues at the National Cathedral with a number of wonderful offerings. Please feel free to participant and invite a friend (or your Environment/Green committee of your parish). Most of these events have a fee, but I am able to offer scholarships to those interested. The goal is to have people, not profit.

 

1.       Sunday, Jan. 27 - Cassandra Carmichael – Being Just, Being Green: What is the Role of Faith in Ecojustice? Cassandra is both director of the National Council of Churches’s Washington office and their Ecojustice program.

2.       Wednesday, Feb. 6 -- Willis Jenkins  - “. . . to the thousandth generation”: God, Poverty and the Future of Love. Willis teaches at the Yale Divinity School

3.       Tuesday, Feb. 19 -- Norman Wirzba - To Dust you Shall Return: Soil and Human well-being. Norman teaches at Duke Divinity School

4.       Thursday, Feb. 21 -- The Relationship of Faith, Food, and Poverty: An Interfaith Discussion                  

 

For more information and tickets: http://www.nationalcathedral.org/learn/index.shtml

 

Also, you don’t want to miss the following course:

 

Responding to Climate Change Where We Live and Worship

Beginning: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7 PM, at the Cathedral College

 

Joelle Novey, director of the Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light, leads a 5-week course.

 

Come view—or review—what is happening to our world due to climate change. Together we’ll learn about this global phenomenon, both the scientific basics and their moral implications. We’ll support each other as we explore how this information makes us feel and connects to our values. We’ll also consider how we might respond in our homes, as congregations, and through advocacy and action.

 

People of any faith tradition who are part of a local congregation are warmly welcome to participate.

 

Join us for this important conversation about the world we love — and how we can preserve it.

 

Fee: $100 for the class. Scholarships are available (please email lshake...@cathedral.org for more information)

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/LCS20130220.shtml#.UOSJDXf939E

 

With much thanks,

Lyndon

 

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The Reverend Lyndon Shakespeare

Director of Program & Ministry

 

WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

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Telephone (202) 537-2379 · Fax (202) 537-6678 · lshake...@cathedral.org .

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