The day included prayers for creation, music from the Philippines, a blessing of solar panels and a keynote from Former Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori (current St. Margaret’s Visiting Professor of Women in Ministry). Today, the Church Divinity School of the Pacific held an event combining “theological reflection, discussion and worship,” This Fragile Earth.
Bishop Marc Andrus was also present for opening devotions, a panel discussion and co-leading the solar panel blessing with Jefferts Schori at the end of the day. Additional speakers were W. Mark Richardson, president and dean of CDSP, and Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, professor of theological and social ethics at CDSP and Pacific Lutheran Seminary.
From the CDSP’s August announcement:
Jefferts Schori will deliver the keynote address, titled “Creation and the Effective Word: Holy Storytelling, Creation, and God’s Mission,” and Moe-Lobeda will give an address titled “Truthtelling, Inequity, and Christian Action.”
The day will culminate with a liturgy to bless CDSP’s new installation of solar panels led by Bishops Jefferts Schori and Andrus. The panels, installed on Easton, Parsons, and Shires Halls earlier in 2016, make up the largest solar installation of any theological seminary in the United States.
The school posted on Twitter and Facebook throughout the event, including the following:
Prof Moe Lobeda: the church should be a place to name what we have done (to the environment) and lament. #fragileearth
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
.@BishopMarc says in his doctoral program people are talking about the reenchantment of the world. #fragileearth
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
Questions after Professor Moe-Lobeda’s speech. #FragileEarth pic.twitter.com/MiSy3fuZ4z
— Paige / بَايْج ♿ (@arubasmusings) October 22, 2016
Prof Moe-Lobeda: Consequences of climate change are not caused or felt equally. High consumers cause more, experience less. #fragileearth
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
“The want is this world is not going to be solved by walls or fences.”
+Katharine Jefferts Schori#FragileEarth— Paige / بَايْج ♿ (@arubasmusings) October 22, 2016
.@KJeffertsSchori We are part of the whole. We are not in charge of the whole. #fragileearth #climatechange #episcopal
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
Bishop Jefferts Schori makes strong theological case for the protests at #StandingRock as attempt to protect our #fragileearth @CDSPTweet
— Scott MacDougall (@scottmacdoug) October 22, 2016
.@KJeffertsSchori Bible has been taken as license to exploit the earth. “We have misheard & misremembered the story.” #fragileearth
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
In beauty may I walk: A Navajo Blessing #fragileearth pic.twitter.com/vOPOUvbq2k
— ChurchDivinitySchool (@CDSPTweet) October 22, 2016
Awesome @CDSPTweet students preparing to read as part of today’s #fragileearth liturgy pic.twitter.com/pA9obanEUC
— Kathleen Moore (@_thleen) October 22, 2016
We will post Jefferts Schori’s keynote here on the Cafe when it is available.