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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 marked both the Birth of the Báb (also known as “The Gate”) and the Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, two major days in the Baha'i calendar. In honor of these Baha’i holy days, we wanted to highlight some of the resources in the Baha’i Faith section of the Forum site.
One of the more recent additions to the site, our Baha’i section offers a variety of ways to learn about and engage with the intersection of the Baha’i Faith and ecology. The Overview Essay, “Baha...
This week's episode of Spotlights features Tara Trapani, the chief administrator for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. She talks about her work with the Forum on Religion and Ecology, including some exciting, new projects happening there, especially the freshly redesigned website. She leads us through the website, navigating the abundance and diversity of news, events, bibliographies, multimedia resources, and so much more. You can check out the website for yourself: https://fore....
In honor of UN Day this weekend, we wanted to highlight the work of Forum partner, UNEP Faith for Earth. Forum associate, Anna Thurston, interviewed Faith for Earth director, Iyad Abumoghli, to learn more about what they do and their upcoming projects.
Dr. Iyad Abumoghli has long focused on global solutions when it comes to environmental sustainability. In an interview with Anna Thurston, he discusses his role as director of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Faith...
In this episode of Spotlights, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim talk with the host (Sam Mickey) about the new encyclical from Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti. They articulate historical, religious, and ecological contexts for understanding what this encyclical means and how it is relevant for efforts to create a more loving, just, and open world. You can read the encyclical here.
You can watch the episode below or listen to it (audio-only) here. As always, an archive of previous episodes can be found here, with audio versions...
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...