July 7, 2025
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Tyler Mark Nelson will speak with Sam King on the next Mepkin Abbey Forum for Contemplative Ecology. Tyler is an educator, eco-theologian, and artist exploring the ways that humans make sense of their creaturely existence in relation to the more-than-human world and the Divine. Serving as a Research Associate with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, he compiled scientific, legal, and social research on the sentience of nonhuman animals and plants. Currently he is assisting with preparations for the launch of the Living Earth Community project. Tyler earned an MDiv in Religion & Ecology from Yale Divinity School, where his research combined theological imagination, animal studies, eco-spirituality, and environmental justice. He received the Harriet Jackson Ely Prize for Excellence and Promise in Theology for his critical eco-theological analysis of how religious movements relate to wild places in the United States. He holds a B.A. in Theology from Whitworth University. Elsewhere Tyler has guided eco-spiritual retreats (in-person and virtual), facilitated climate grief groups, and designed educational resources for spiritual community leaders. In prior years he worked in horticulture administration, vermiculture operations, and similar roles where his care for earth and earthlings coalesced.
Watch last month’s conversation with Rev. Christopher Carter here.
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