Yale Divinity School has just released the new issue of their magazine, Reflections, with the theme of “A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet.” This issue was inspired by the launch of the Living Village at YDS, which we shared about on our social channels. For more about the Living Village, see the interview with Chris Sawyer in our “Reflections on Religion & Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field” series.
Two members of the Forum team have pieces in this exciting issue. Our own Mary Evelyn Tucker has contributed the powerful “The Power of Conscience, an Advance in Consciousness,” and Anna Thurston's reflective piece is titled “How to Breathe in Uncharted Times: A Case Study.” And Forum readers will be familiar with several other contributors to this issue, including Willie Jennings (featured in our Yale/Coursera online courses); and Gerald Torres, founder of our parent organization at Yale, The Yale Center for Environmental Justice.
From the editor:
Despite the discouraging ecological trends that mark the times, good news is stirring to disrupt the bad. The occasion for this Reflections issue is the historic new eco-regenerative Living Village at Yale Divinity School, setting a new standard for sustainable residential buildings on university campuses. As these Reflections writers demonstrate, the painstaking work of creation care and ecotheology—in neighborhoods and municipalities, in pulpits and classrooms, in spiritual and social consciousness itself—is alive and well and will help define the future. The power of faith and conviction to reverse environmental destruction is the real sign of the times.