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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.
Last week we told you about an upcoming live event featuring Evangelical author and speaker, Brian McLaren, and one of our founders and directors, Mary Evelyn Tucker. We're pleased to share the recording of that event with you now:
This webcast was the first episode of a new series titled Religion to the Rescue: a Show of Good Faith. Here's more on that new series from the creators at Unity Earth:
In this time of critical call to personal and global transformation, what is the role...
A wonderful new book came out this year on Indigenous science, Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science (Penguin, 2022), by Jessica Hernandez, PhD. It is a deeply informative and inspiring book, weaving together historical, personal, and ecological perspectives in a way that is philosophically brilliant as well as practically applicable.
From the publisher's description:
Jessica Hernandez–Maya Ch’orti’ and...
This Sunday, September 18 at 6pm EST, please join us for the inaugural episode of Religion to the Rescue: a Show of Good Faith. This first episode will feature Brian McLaren and Mary Evelyn Tucker and will be aired as one of the plenary sessions for Peace Week 2022. Other Peace Week plenaries include Vandana Shiva, Deepak’s Chopra, and many others.
From the event site:
In this time of critical call to personal and global transformation, what is the role and value of religion? ...
This episode of Spotlights features André Daughtry, an award-winning speculative social documentarian who explores contemporary expressions of the spiritual, mystical, and theological in the contexts of pluralistic democracies. He talks about his latest project, WILDERNESS, a speculative documentary photography, film and performance project that engages an integral ecological approach to sustainability and spirituality, specifically in relationship to Indigenous populations and their respective cosmologies and...
The third season of our video podcast series, Forum Spotlights, launched this past Monday. You can see the first episode of the new season here on our site our on our YouTube channel.
In honor of the new season, we've pulled together a topical list of episodes for the first two seasons that we hope educators and their students will find helpful.
The majority of these are full-length episodes, but “Spotlights Clips” indicates...
As autumn approaches in the northeastern US and the school year begins, the buzz of activity resumes, and the field of religion and ecology is no exception! There are many interesting events in the field and related areas of interest this fall. Listed below are some of the highlights for the month of September. All of the events listed here are accessible online and the majority are free of charge.
For a full listing of upcoming events, including in-person events, trainings,...
To celebrate the beginning of a new season of the Forum on Religion and Ecology podcast, Spotlights, it makes sense to commemorate the episodes we've released during our first two seasons. To do so, let's look at a few exemplary episodes.
The podcast series started on September 21, 2020. Our inaugural episode features Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, bringing the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology into the world of podcasting. Details for that episode are here.
Occasionally our podcast episodes...
This is the beginning of the third year of Spotlights, the podcast for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. This new beginning intersects with another new beginning: the Religion and Ecology unit of the American Academy of Religion has two new co-chairs, Joseph Wiebe, PhD, and Kimberly Carfore, PhD. In this episode, they both reflect on the past, present, and future of the academic field and activist force of religion and ecology. We talk about the success of previous chairs and others who have...
Today, we shine a spotlight on one of the winners of the 2022 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest.
We in the Woods is a short film about the efforts of Indigenous Karen Buddhist ascetics in the tiny Thai village of Ban Hmong Kua to preserve their woodlands from development and ecological degradation. It won second runner up in the contest and provides a window into their world and their work, using their traditional ecological knowledge to combat the pollution and destruction of their home. See the full 13-minute...
This blog regularly features clips and episodes from the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology podcast, Spotlights. It is a video podcast series, with episodes posted on the Forum's YouTube channel. and archived on the Forum website here.
Along with the video version of each episode, we also make audio versions available. Some people prefer listening to podcasts instead of watching, sometimes finding the audio version more convenient, or more enjoyable, or easier to pay attention to.
Before Spotlights returns for its third...