We invite you to join the Green the Church Annual Summit on October 10th-13th, 2021. Our partner organization, Green The Church works at the intersection of the Black Church and the environmental movement. This year's Green The Church Summit theme is Green Lessons From Black Wall Street. It’s a call to action 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…
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gather-storytelling-do-over-marilyn-torres-violet-duncan-doug-bland-tickets-189356990857 About this event "gather" started in April 2020 as a storytelling livestream. SInce that time, we have presented over 50 incredible tellers, dozens of thoughtful themes and connected with our fellow Arizona residents--storytellers and viewers! We invite you to join us in person on Wednesday, October 27 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…
Arizona Faith Network, Whisper n' Thunder, and Arizona Interfaith Power and Light join together with Arizona leaders to explore Arizona's lifeblood: water. Together we will explore the voices, history, gifts, and challenges of Arizona's water. November 9th: Featuring: Nicole Horseherder, Executive Director of Tó Nizhóní Áni as our speaker and Kyle Mitchell, Dine/Navajo Read more…
November 15, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF ATTENTION – Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer for The New Yorker, Under White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021) No one has covered the climate crisis as deeply and as thoughtfully as Elizabeth Kolbert. From Field Notes From A Catastrophe (2007) to her Pulitzer-prize winning 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…
November 29, 2021: THE CLIMATE OF COMMUNITY – Brian Kirbis, A Community Tea Ceremony, Theasophie For our last “Weather Report,” Tea Master Brian Kirbis who has opened each conversation with a tea pouring to set a tone of well being and attention, on this final session, he will take us through a Read more…
As the nation prepares for the anniversary of the Jan 6th insurrection, a coalition of non-partisan democracy defenders calls on the public to mobilize and stand with us for Peace at the Polls. This is not just in response to the Jan 6th insurrection and violence at the capitol, but Read more…
Join people of faith as we unite to protect our cherished right to vote in Arizona. Join All Voting is Local along with co-hosts Arizona Faith Network, AZ Jews for Justice, CorAZón, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Arizona, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Phoenix, and the Southwest Read more…