Evensong & Ecology, focuses on themes related to the environment and was conceived to promote awareness of vetted ecological initiatives that set priorities, provide focus, and establish value.
This program is free and open to all. For more information please contact The Rev. Canon Patti Welch, Canon for Education at pwelch@cathedralnyc.org or 212-316-7474.
Previous Guests:
April 22, 2012
2:30 pm- 3:30 pm Meditation and Conversation with the Rev. Nancy Roth, Cathedral House
4 pm, Evensong, Cathedral
The Rev. Nancy Roth is an Episcopal priest, retreat leader, author, dancer, and musician. Her work as a resource person in the area of spirituality draws on her many interests: the integration of body and spirit, the contemplative tradition of prayer, the arts, and the relationship of Christian faith and ethics to environmental issues. Her work in New York included serving as Christian Education Consultant at Trinity Church, Wall Street, where she taught a variety of classes on spirituality. Now living in Oberlin, Ohio, Rev. Roth undertakes her writing projects as an Affiliate Scholar at Oberlin College and serves as Assisting Priest at Christ Episcopal Church, Oberlin. She travels widely as a retreat conductor and workshop leader. She is an associate of the Contemplative Project, sponsored by the Foundation for the Meditative Process.
The author of many books and articles, Rev. Roth and her husband Robert, a church musician, collaborated in editing We Sing of God: a Hymnal for Children, published by Church Publishing. She has also authored numerous books on the integration of the body and prayer -- An Invitation to Christian Yoga, and Spiritual Exercises: Joining Body and Spirit in Prayer -- as well as the classic The Breath of God ; Praying: a Book for Children; and Tween Prayer. Her books of meditations on hymn texts include A Closer Walk; Awake, my Soul; New Every Morning; and Praise My Soul. The Church Publishing book Organic Prayer: a Spiritual Gardening Companion paved the way for her newest book about spirituality and the natural world: Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action.
In October, 2010, Rev. Roth was awarded an honorary doctorate by the General Theological Seminary in celebration of her ministry to the Episcopal Church.
Suzanne Guthrie, author of Praying the Hours and Grace's Window, retreat leader, and Episcopal priest, creates a weekly lectionary retreat at edgeofenclosure.org. She and her husband, Bill Consiglio, serve as resident companions of The Community of the Holy Spirit at their Melrose Covent in Brewster, New York. The CHS sisters strive to live a life reflecting sustainable living, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Daily life involves organic farming, (maple sugaring, planting, tending, gathering and preserving food), singing the monastic offices (Lauds, Noonday Prayers, Vespers, Compline), fellowship, "eucharistic living," service to others, and individual artistic pursuits. Suzanne serves as priest for the sisters.
March 11, 2012, 2:30 pm- 3:30 pm Conversation with Suzanne Guthrie, Cathedral House & 4 pm, Evensong, Cathedral
Ibrahim Abdul-Matin is a passionate voice for transforming our pollution-based way of life to one that prioritizes our planet and its people. The author of Green Deen: What Islam Teachings About Protecting the Planet, he seeks to connect people to move from entitlement to empowerment, and he is active in environmental justice advocacy in New York City.
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Christiana Z. Peppard, Scholar in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, studies the value of fresh water in contemporary economic and theological perspectives. She is completing her Ph.D. at Yale University in the Department of Religious Studies. Her published work includes several essays on fresh water, two poems, and an exploration of the legacy of Pauli Murray, the 20th-century African American lawyer, activist, poet, and Episcopal priest.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Abagail Nelson, Senior Vice President of Programs, Episcopal Relief & Development, oversees all of ERD’s programs on food security, HIV/AIDS, and emergency relief. A graduate of Harvard University and the London School of Economics, Ms. Nelson has worked with ERD since 1999. Prior to serving in her current position, she worked as director of Latin American programs and as special coordinator of ERD’s efforts in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Earth Day Celebration: Sunday, April 25 2010, 11 am
Guest Preacher will be The Reverend Fletcher Harper. The Service will be followed by a lunchtime forum with Reverend Harper.
Rev. Fletcher Harper
Rev. Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, is Executive Director of GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental coalition based in New Jersey. An award-winning spiritual writer and nationally-recognized preacher on the environment, Harper preaches, teaches and speaks weekly at houses of worship from a wide range of denominations in New Jersey and beyond about the moral, spiritual basis for environmental stewardship and justice. A graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary, Harper served as a parish priest for ten years and in leadership positions in the Episcopal Church prior to joining GreenFaith.
Founded in 1992, GreenFaith is New Jersey’s interfaith coalition for the environment. GreenFaith inspires, educates and mobilizes people of diverse spiritual backgrounds to deepen their relationship with the sacred in nature and to restore the earth for future generations. At a time when religious conflicts dominate the headlines, GreenFaith unites people of diverse faiths toward the shared value of caring for the earth.
GreenFaith’s work flows from its core values of Spirit, Stewardship and Justice in relation to the earth. GreenFaith believes that people grow spiritually through a strong relationship with nature
environmental stewardship is a moral responsibility people of faith have a vital role to play in the restoration of a clean, healthy environment.
Through religious-environmental education programs, by greening the operation of religious institutions and the homes of their members, and through legislative advocacy and values-based environmental activism, GreenFaith helps religious institutions and people of all faiths put their belief into action for the earth and all its inhabitants.
Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener: March 14, 2010
The Cathedral is delighted to host Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener , director of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network and spiritual leader of Congregation P’nai Or of Central Connecticut, as our special guest at Evensong & Ecology, Sunday, March 14th.
As a teacher, rabbi, and community organizer, Andrea Cohen-Kiener, has practiced the art of bringing a spiritual perspective to problem solving for three decades. Her most recent book, Claiming Earth as Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis Through the Lens of Faith is an urgent call to action. Gathering insights from ecology coalitions, emerging theologies, and spiritual and environmental activists Andrea inspires us to work across denominational lines in order to fulfill our sacred imperative to care for God's creation.
Please join us for this invaluable opportunity to consider how we, as people of faith, might reclaim the earth as common ground and work together to heal the environment.
Gidon Bromberg: January 17, 2010
Gidon Bromberg is the founder and director of Friends of the Earth Middle East. He is deeply committed to peace and environmental protection in the region. He is a lawyer and political economist by training and holds a masters degree in International Environmental Law. He is a fellow of the New Israel Fund, a member of the Israel National Commission for the Environment, of the Israel World Heritage Committee and of the inter-Ministerial working group concerning the Dead Sea.
Elizabeth Royte November 15, 2009
Elizabeth Royte has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and other national magazines. A former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, Royte is the author of The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001. Her recently acclalimed book Bottlemania offers a follow-up to Garbage Land, her influential investigation into our modern trash crisis. In Bottlemania Elizabeth Royte ventures to Fryeburg, Maine, to look deep into the source—of Poland Spring water. In this tiny town, and in others like it across the country, she finds the people, machines, economies, and cultural trends that have made bottled water a $60-billion-a-year phenomenon even as it threatens local control of a natural resource and litters the landscape with plastic waste.
Moving beyond the environmental consequences of making, filling, transporting and landfilling those billions of bottles, Royte examines the state of tap water today, and the social impact of water-hungry multinationals sinking ever more pumps into tiny rural towns. Ultimately, Bottlemania makes a case for protecting public water supplies, for improving our water infrastructure and—in a world of increasing drought and pollution—better allocating the precious drinkable water that remains.
John Philip Newell
Sunday, October 2, 4 pm Evensong
John Philip Newell is a poet, a scholar and a teacher. Formerly Warden of Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland, he is currently Companion Theologian for the American Spirituality Centre of Casa del Sol in the high desert of New Mexico. He is internationally acclaimed for his work in the field of Celtic spirituality; He is a Church of Scotland minister with a passion for peace in the world and a fresh vision for harmony between the great spiritual traditions of humanity.
