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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.
A few weeks ago, we alerted everyone to the upcoming third installment in the very popular webinar series to celebrate Orion’s anthology Old Growth.
This event will take place online on Tuesday April 26 at 2pm EST. The speakers in conversation will be Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore, with the Forum’s own Mary Evelyn Tucker moderating. The event is free and open to all.
Pre-registration is required.
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This week, Spotlights features a clip from our episode with Samuel King, a Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and a graduate student in Religion and Ecology at Yale Divinity School. In this clip, Sam discusses a newly developed resource: a series of MOOCs (massive, open, online courses) oriented around the study of religion and ecology across the world's diverse traditions.
Details about the MOOCs can be found here.
Details for the full episode are available here.
You can...
The Forum is pleased to share news of a new initiative in the field of religion & ecology, the Center for Ecological Regeneration at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. The new center's mission is to “spread regenerative eco-theological understandings, earth-based religious practices, and cooperative solidarities for the just healing of wounded socio-ecological relationships in the Midwest bioregion and beyond.”
From the center site:
We live in a time of accelerating planetary crises related to climate...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Samuel King, a Research Associate for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and a graduate student in Religion and Ecology at Yale Divinity School. Sam discusses many facets of his work, including his experience teaching courses in philosophy, religion, and interdisciplinary humanities, his creative writing practice, and his time studying environmental practices in Sri Lanka and India. He also talks about his work with the Journey of the Universe project, including a podcast...
We're very pleased to announce “The Language of Trees,” the third installment in the very popular webinar series on trees to celebrate Orion's anthology Old Growth. The next event will take place on Tuesday April 26 at 2pm EST. The speakers in conversation will be Alison Hawthorne Deming and Kathleen Dean Moore, with the Forum's own Mary Evelyn Tucker moderating.
Go here to register. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube, and a recording (with closed captioning) will be made available to...
This week, Spotlights features another clip from our episode with Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego and a commissioned Elder within the United Methodist Church. In this clip, he discusses the important challenges of decolonial thinking and the decolonization of knowledge, particularly in light of his new book, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2021).
Details for the full episode can be...
This year, Orion Magazine is celebrating 40 years of bringing rich and meaningful environmental writing to our world. Their celebration will consist of an online event, a silent auction, and a book contest from Ecco/Harper Collins.
The online event is free and open to all and will take place on June 14 at 6pm EST. You can register for it here. According to the event site, the online event will consist of appearances by Margaret Atwood, Rebecca Solnit, Vanessa Nakate, Jane Goodall, Camille T. Dungy, Jeff...
This week, Spotlights features a clip from our episode with Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego and a commissioned Elder within the United Methodist Church. In this clip, he discusses his notion of black veganism, particularly in light of his new book, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2021).
Details for the full episode can be found here.
You can watch the clip below or listen...
In honor of the Vernal Equinox this coming Sunday, we'd like to share two Chinese poems, one an ancient Tang poem and a more recent offering from the 20th century, expressing the tenderness of spring.
Spring Dawn
Meng Haoran 689/91-740, trans. Shawn Powrie
Sleeping in on a spring morn — sensing not the dawn,
Everywhere is heard the tweeting of the bird,
Come night and the wind-rain sound,
Unknown how many petals fell to...
This week’s episode of spotlights features Rev. Dr. Christopher Carter, an Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego and a commissioned Elder within the United Methodist Church. Reflecting on his new book, The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith, & Food Justice (University of Illinois Press, 2021), he discusses the profound importance of subverting industrial agriculture and creating food sovereign communities. He talks about soul food, the history of agriculture in the United States,...