Awakening the Dreamer #160…
Franciscan Renewal Center 5802 E Lincoln Dr, Paradise VAlley, AZ, United StatesWhat kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us?
What kind of world do we want to leave to those who come after us?
This year’s conference will teach faith leaders how our current food system is contributing to the climate crisis.
Attend this event if you wish to have your faith in humanity restored and improve the way you react. Childcare will be provided.
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Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee, will be discussing why Sacred Land Protection matters to Indigenous communities and how her community in Alaska is standing strong to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge –Coastal Plain and the Porcupine caribou herd from becoming an oil and gas reservation. Read more…
THE CLIMATE OF RELATIONSHIPS & INTERSECTIONALITY Morgan Curtis, Climate Activist, HDS Student, MDiv '24; Brontë Velez, Black-latinx transdisciplinary artist Morgan Curtis and Brontê Velez will be discussing the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and climate collapse and how seeing the world whole through the lens of relationships creates communities of Read more…
October 18, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF COMPASSION FOR ALL BEINGS -- Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and the Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs at HDS School. We are not the only species that lives and loves and grieves on this planet. Janet Gyatso will bring provocative and evocative Read more…
Poet Victoria Chang writes in her New York Times Notable Book of 2020, OBIT “I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn’t know that it’s not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.” After the deaths of her parents, she refused to write Read more…
Michael Pollan has been educating us with illuminating prose on “The Botany of Desire” for a very long time. He continues to show us through his landmark bestseller, How To Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, alongside his Read more…
November 8, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF RESISTANCE -- Chloe Aridjis, Writer’s Rebel, UK, Novelist, Sea Monsters (2020); Wanjira Mathai, Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute Award-winning novelist Chloe Aridjis and Conservationist Wanjira Mathai are powerful leaders in the global environmental movement who are fierce and compassionate, at once. They Read more…
November 22, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF THE FUTURE – Kim Stanley Robinson, Writer, The Ministry for the Future (2020) Kim Stanley Robinson has written a science fiction thriller on climate collapse in 2025 that reads as hard-edge journalism. With short chapters written from the perspectives of a myriad of characters, Robinson Read more…
Foothills Christian Church invites you to their Connection to Nature event, celebrating the shared value of caring for the earth. Activities include crafts, games, animal encounters, enrichment presentations, food, raffle, storytelling, and a Hoop Dance performance.