Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Loving our Neighbors while Caring For Creation

Noon Fri | Library

Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina

Re-Member and Re-Imagine: Loving our Neighbors while Caring For Creation This workshop will offer a glimpse into the hearts and minds of a variety of faith leaders who are working to for climate change solutions and a variety of levels of environmental and social justice. Together we will remember our own belovedness and our connection to neighbors and God’s creation. We will also explore the prophetic and beautiful imagination that seems to be dwindling among us. You will experience a diverse cross-section of stories, conversation, and inspiration in a roaming panel conversation ending with a collective prayer. You can expect conversations about preaching, the connections between ecological injustice and our environmental movement, climate science, and some Good News about how faith communities are engaging on the greatest challenges of our time.

Scott Hardin-Nieri

Scott Hardin-Nieri is partner, dad, spiritual director, pastor, and sojourner. He is the Director of the Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina and Associate Minister of Green Chalice of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Prior to living in North Carolina, Scott and his family served in the vulnerable cloud forest of Monteverde, Costa Rica. There he learned to how to climb Fig Strangler trees, spot Two-toed Sloths, call like a Mot Mot, and listen to people and nature in a new way. Scott is an ordained pastor with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and enjoys accompanying people during transformative experiences, whether during hikes, spiritual direction, wilderness quests, shared stories, service learning trips, live music concerts, camps or retreats. He continues to be reminded of his true self most clearly in the forests, oceans and deserts and seeks to invite others, particularly faith communities into conversations regarding creation. www.creationcarealliance.org

Sessions:
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care
265 Creation Care: A Practice of Love

Susannah Tuttle

Susannah Tuttle is director of NC Interfaith Power & Light (NCIPL), a program of the NC Council of Churches (NCCC). She is grateful to have found her life�s purpose in Creation Care with great hope to inspire others to find meaning and joy in this faithful practice.

Sessions:
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care

Leah Schade

The Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade is the Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington (Ky.) Theological Seminary. An ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for 18 years, Leah has served congregations in rural, urban, and suburban settings. She earned both her MDiv and Ph.D. degrees from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Her book Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit are available at www.chalicepress.com. Her forthcoming book, Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red/Blue Divide, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in 2019, and explores how clergy and churches can address controversial justice issues using nonpartisan, biblically-centered approaches along with deliberative dialogue. Leah is the EcoPreacher blogger for Patheos: www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopreacher/
thepurplezone.net/

Sessions:
71 Purple Zone – Deliberative Dialogue
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care
117 Preaching as Resistance

Kevin Bates

Kevin Bates is a United Methodist minister currently serving two rural churches near Asheville. He is a graduate of Chapel Hill and Duke Divinity school. At Duke Divinity, Kevin participated in the Thriving Rural Communities Initiative- a program which seeks to lift up and celebrate the gifts of rural communities. In his work with the Creation Care Alliance of WNC, Kevin seeks to articulate and learn the connections between faith, ecology and rural communities. Kevin is an avid hiker and gardener. He lives with his wife, Mary and their two kittens, Eyja and Katla, in Candler.

Sessions:
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care

Rabbi Justin Goldstein

Justin Goldstein has served as the rabbi of Congregation Beth Israel in Asheville since early 2014. Rabbi Goldstein teaches and writes frequently on environmental justice and sustainability in the Jewish tradition. He is a Rabbis Without Borders fellow and was recently named by the Jewish Daily Forward as one of the most inspiring rabbis in the US in 2016.

Sessions:
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care

Tami Forte Logan

Rev. Tami Forte Logan was born in Germany, raised in Virginia, and has resided in Western North Carolina for 30 years. She lives in the foothills of Western North Carolina, where she enjoys gardening, the arts, spending time with her grandchildren, her 12 chickens, and being an empty nester with her husband, John. Tami is the pastor of Pharr Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Zion church. She is a popular educator, community organizer, cultural organizer, and the business owner of Inside & Out Consulting. She fosters the healing of both oppression and white supremacy, and she believes “If I am unwilling to support the liberation of all humanity, then I will never be free myself.” Tami is also the Missioner of Faith 4 Justice – Asheville. Faith 4 Justice is a coalition of ecumenical and multi-faith clergy and faith leaders provoking justice for black and brown bodied people through discernment, advocacy, racial equity capacity building, and providing a ministry of presence with impacted communities.
faith4justiceinasheville.com

Sessions:
240 Provoking Racial Justice
219 Re-Member and Re-Imagine:Creation Care

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