Ministry for
Earth Community
A one-day conference on the implications of ecology for the practice of ministry
Friday, April 24, 2009
8am-5pm
Harvard Divinity School
45 Francis Ave, Cambridge MA
SCHEDULE:
8-9: Registration
9-11:30: Panel Presentation and discussion featuring: Susan Abraham, Roger Gottlieb, and Willis
Jenkins
1:15-2:30: Workshop Session I, Topics TBA
2:45-4:00: Workshop Session II, Topics TBA
4:15-5:00: Closing Worship Service
WORKSHOP TOPICS: Gardening as Spiritual Practice
Massachusetts Environmental Justice Hotspots
Pastoral Care in an Age of “Ecological Crisis
The Greening of Worship
Susan Abraham, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Ministry Studies at Harvard
Divinity School; Roger Gottlieb, Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
author of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, and A Greener Faith: Religious
Environmentalism and Our Planet’s Future; and Willis Jenkins, Margaret A. Farley Assistant
Professor of Social Ethics at Yale Divinity School, author of Ecologies of Grace: Environmental
Ethics and Christian Theology.
Presented by:
The Boston Theological Institute Religion and Ecology Program;
ECOdiv, the Harvard Divinity student environmental organization;
and Harvard Divinity School Office of Ministry Studies;
PLEASE RSVP to: btioffice@bostontheological.org