Tag: climate change
Searching for the Buddha’s Climate Change Policy
On May 14, I joined some 130 Buddhist leaders, teachers and scholars representing over 60 major Buddhist schools and ethnicities in Washington D.C. for the first White House U.S. Buddhist Leaders Conf... Read More
Laudato Si’ – Becoming Painfully Aware
This is the first in a multi-part series exploring the Laudato Si’ Encyclical Letter on the environment by Pope Francis. “Our goal is not to amass information or to satisfy curiosity, but rath... Read More
When the Anthropocene Came to Halji
This is the second in a multi-part series discussing sacred landscapes and religion in the Himalaya. Read the first post here. The rocky trail we had been hiking all day along the Limi River was inter... Read More
Religious Studies Can Help Save the Planet
Recently UC Riverside Religious Studies professor Ivan Strenski published a piece on the Religion Dispatches blog with a provocative question: can religion professors save the planet? He was respondin... Read More
First Steps: A Christian’s Perspective on Ecotheology
Everyone knows about dinosaurs. I mean, dinosaurs are cool. For a species of animal that hasn’t been around several million years, they have quite the legacy. We still go to see them in museums. Kid... Read More
Ancestors and the Earth
Religions for the Earth recently held a weekend conference in New York City at Union Theological Seminary. The purpose was to make people aware that climate change and our environment are social justi... Read More
Another Understanding of Our Spiritual Responsibilities – Part 2
In Part I, I shared how I started to rethink how to approach the concept of our human responsibilities from a spiritual perspective. In Part II, I examine this process in more detail. Why or Why Not? ... Read More
Another Understanding of Our Spiritual Responsibilities – Part 1
Recently I have been trying to reflect on how, as people of faith or beings of spiritual countenance, we can try to envisage our responsibilities to the land we live in, the planet we inhabit and the ... Read More