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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.
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It's almost time for the Faith Action on the United Nations Development Goals launch webinar we told you about in the blog a couple of weeks ago!
The event will take place tomorrow, September 2, at 11am EST. It will include remarks from the leaders of the involved organizations (David Hales, Iyad Abu Moghli, William Swing, Mary Evelyn Tucker), a presentation on several of the engaged projects, and a live demo of the interactive database.
This virtual event is free and open to...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Dr. Todd LeVasseur, visiting assistant professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where he is also the director of the Sustainability Literacy Institute. We discuss his recently published book, Climate Change, Religion, and our Bodily Future (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), including topics related to posthumanism, queer ecologies, ecological animisms, indigenous knowledges, material feminisms, deep adaptation, and more. We also...
On September 18 at 1pm EST, the Yale Forest Forum will host an online conversation in honor of the publication of Orion Magazine's new book, Old Growth.
The speakers will be Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass), Robert Macfarlane (The Lost Words), and David Haskell (The Songs of Trees), and Mary Evelyn Tucker of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology will be facilitating the conversation.
From the event site:
In August 2021, Orion Magazine released Old Growth, an...
This week’s episode of Spotlights is another short clip from our episode featuring Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, PhD, Director of Inter-religious Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. In this clip, Rabbi Laura talks about the symbolic meaning of donkeys in...
In 2020, UNEP’s Faith for Earth Initiative, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, United Religions Initiative, and Bhumi Global published a report to celebrate the five year anniversary of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The report featured data they had collected on faith-based organizations around the world doing work that fell within the scope of the environmental SDGs.
Only a fraction of the collected data was used in the written...
This week’s episode of Spotlights is a short clip from our episode featuring Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, PhD, Director of Inter-religious Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. Reflecting on her book, Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals (Wipf & Stock, 2021), she discusses questions of anthropocentrism, the ethical treatment of animals, and the order of creation.
You can watch the clip below or listen to it...
Today, we want to highlight the Climate Anticipation Project by Chris Fici.
From the project site:
The Climate Anticipation Project gathers existent and emerging anticipatory communities into networks of anticipation for the hard seasons ahead. The Climate Anticipation Project connects anticipatory communities across the spectrum of spirituality, ecological justice, and regenerative ecology.
The practice of Anticipation is...
This week’s episode of Spotlights features Rabbi Laura Duhan Kaplan, PhD, Director of Inter-religious Studies and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. She discusses her professional and personal engagement in the intersection of religion and ecology, with particular attention to her newly released book, Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals (Wipf & Stock, 2021). She provides a fresh, insightful, and accessible interpretation of humans, sheep, corvids, locusts, donkeys, and...
Today, we're shining a spotlight on an upcoming conference: Sacred Wisdom, Sacred Earth: Centering Indigenous Knowledge for Future Generations being hosted by the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the International Mayan League. This virtual event will be held online from August 9-11 and is free and open to the general public.
From the event site:
The convening brings together and centers Indigenous speakers and moderators from a variety of...
This week's episode of Spotlights is a remix of previous interviews with guests who have written books that explore religious perspectives on climate change. First, we hear from Andreas Karelas, executive director of RE-volv — a nonprofit organization that empowers communities to invest in solar energy — and author of Climate Courage: How Tackling Climate Change Can Build Community, Transform the Economy, and Bridge the Political Divide in America (Beacon Press, 2020). The next guest is David...