The Climate Crisis & Empowering Hope: 2023 Hybrid Conference
September 20-23, 2023
Workshops
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 20
Welcome: Bruce Gillette
Worship: Diane Moffett
Bible Study: Patricia Tull
Music: Warren Cooper
THURSDAY, SEPT. 21
Workshop 1:
(1) Outdoor Ministries, Colleen Earp
(2) Earth Gospel: Prayer for God’s Creation, Sam Hamilton-Poore
(3) Divestment & Other Overtures for 2024 GA, Fred Milligan
Workshop 2:
(1) Going Carbon Neutral as a Church, John Crampton
(2) Songs for Creation, Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
(3) Government Support for Church Energy Improvements: The Latest IRA
Rollout Information, Tiffany Hartung
Worship: Diane Moffett
Bible Study: Patricia Tull
Music: Warren Cooper
Workshop 3:
(1) A Womanist and Interfaith Response to Climate Change in Religion
Sustainability and Place: Moral Geographies of the Anthropocene, Faith Harris
(2) The Tortoise & the Hare: A discussion of the upcoming Farm Bill & & the
Inflation Reduction Act, Josh Svaty
(3) Electric Vehicles & the IRA, Zack Hurst
Workshop 4:
(1) Rooted Woman: One Black Woman’s Story at the Intersection of Earth,
Faith, and Action in Walking through the Valley: Womanist Explorations in
the Spirit of Katie Geneva Cannon, Faith Harris
(2) Divest? Invest? Engage? It’s complicated., Kerri Allen, Jihyun Oh, Rob Fohr, Greg Rousos, James Carey, and Brad Masters
(3) Potter’s Wheel: Earthen Hands Ministry, Jean Brown
Plenary Talk: Matthew 25, Diane Moffett
FRIDAY, SEPT. 22
Workshop 5:
(1) Climate Impacts on the Gathered Waters, Mark Eakin
(2) Rethinking God & Creation Care, Grace Ji-Sun Kim
(3) Home Energy Conservation: Electrifying Everything, Patricia Tull
Workshop 6:
(1) Why a Carbon Pollution Fee?, Linda Racine
(2) Faithful Banking & Investment, Dan Terpstra & Cory Atwood
(3) A Progressive View of the Farm Bill, Jim Turner
Worship: TBA
Bible Study: Patricia Tull
Music: Warren Cooper
Workshop 7:
(1) Electric Vehicles & Changing Rules, Zack Hurst
(2) Deepening Our Emotional Capacity, Talitha Amadea Aho
(3) Spiritual and ethical based approaches to Environmental Communication and Hope, Ron Amundsen
Workshop 8:
(1) Potter’s Wheel: Earthen Hands Ministry, Jean Brown
(2) Ubuntu Philosophy and Ethics: We are All Siblings from Mother Earth, Fr. Fikiri Deogratias, SJ
(3) Eating and Living for a Healthy Climate, Suzanne Jones
Workshop 9:
(1) The Crisis of Biodiversity Loss: The Climate Crisis’s Urgently Important
and Often Overlooked Twin, Cherie Holcomb
(2) Witnessing Typhoons, Seeking Justice, AG Saño
Plenary Talk: Carbon is Changing Our Planet: Consequences & Actions, Jeffrey Reimer
SATURDAY, SEPT. 23
Bible Study: Patricia Tull
Closing Worship: Jed Koball
Music: Warren Cooper