Blog
Welcome to the new Yale Forum Blog!
We will be sharing a variety of original content including interviews, reviews, reports from the field, new and enhanced resources on the Forum website, content from our new video podcast series, FORE Spotlights, and much more.
Check back every Tuesday and Thursday for new content.
This is our second installment featuring current Indigenous environmental issues for Indigenous People’s Day. Go here for last week's feature on the Wet’suwet’en peoples and their fight against the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
Since taking office in early 2019, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro's...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter, an assistant professor and the assistant chair of the Theology and Religious Studies department at the University of San Diego, in San Diego, California. He is also the co-creator of Racial Resilience, an anti-racism and anti-bias training program that utilizes the combined insights of contemplative practices and critical race theories. His work focuses particularly on the ways in which ecological spaces impact black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC...
This coming Monday, October 12, is Indigenous People’s Day, and in honor of this, we wanted to highlight a couple of the many issues going on regarding Indigenous peoples and environmental protection .
Since 2014, the Wetʼsuwetʼen hereditary chiefs of British Columbia have been fighting the construction of the 460 mile-long Coastal GasLink pipeline (a project of TC Energy), which will go directly through their tribal lands. Their objections are cultural as well as...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Evan Berry, an assistant professor of environmental humanities in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Evan talks about his teaching, research, and writing on a wide range of topics related to religion and ecology, including the role of religion in environmental humanities, religious perspectives on climate change and the Anthropocene, the increasing availability of interdisciplinary paths for scholars, religion in...
This month there are a wealth of virtual events being hosted around the country and the world, related to the intersection of faith and the environment. The inability to hold most in-person events due to CoVid has not stopped this from being a very exciting season for engagement in the field. We’d like to draw your attention to a few of the highlights:
October 2, 9-11am EST
Religions, Ecology, & Our Environment:
An interreligious and intergenerational conversation on religion and...
There are so many interesting events related to religion and ecology happening throughout the next month. For now, I’ll just mention a few events, which you can attend (virtually). I’m sure many of you will share my excitement for the global conference, Faith for Nature, happening next week, October 5-8. You might also like to know about two events presented by the Temple of Understanding on the occasion of its 60th anniversary: Forum2020: Science, Spirituality, the Climate Emergence and our Future...
In honor of the launch of our new Forum Spotlights video series, we wanted to highlight the many video resources that already exist all over the Forum site and on our YouTube channel. We know many educators are having to figure out dynamic new ways to engage their classes long-distance, and our site has collected and organized many potentially helpful multimedia resources for you. Here is a guide to what you will find around the Forum site:
FORE Spotlights
Earlier this week, we released the first video in our new...
Welcome! This is the inaugural post for the Forum on Religion and Ecology blog, led by myself (Sam Mickey) and Tara Trapani. We're excited to bring you this new offering on the equinox, as we (in the northern hemisphere) transition into autumn. We'll be posting every Tuesday and Thursday with information and discussion about the field, including news and events, resources on the Forum website, and links to the content from our new podcast series, FORE Spotlights.
For today's post, along with welcoming you to the blog, I'm...