The Living Earth Community: A Gateway to a Sustainable Future

Environment has teamed up with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, founders of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, to periodically publish a Column around the broad theme of ecotheology. Here is the fusion of ecology and theology set in the context of a wondrous planet which is teeming with life and with intelligence expressed in an infinite variety of ways. Their columns display their profound belief in the rising moral force for ecological conversion and social transformation. Along with a growing communion, they feel the surge of a “great awareness”. They express the conviction that we must shift in our “beingness” to embrace the living entity of the planet and its place in the cosmos. Everywhere they see religious communities becoming increasingly self-aware and collectively caring, fusing the individual and common good through benign action and joint purpose.

They have created a website entitled the Living Earth Community (https://livingearthcommunity.com/). What follows are selective passages from this site which reveal its origins and purpose.

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