Mountaintop Experience and a Prophetic Call for Climate Change

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Some WCC staff preparing for the Intefaith Summit on Climate Change (Church Center for UN)

Climate Change is one of the most important issues of our time.  I write from NYC and this is my latest for The Huffington Post.

 

The joy and excitement of being part of the Religions for the Earth and World Council of Churches (WCC) and Religions for Peace’s

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For the Good of Our Shared Earth: The World Council of Churches and ‘Religions for the Earth’

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I will be participating in the World Council of Church’s Interfaith Climate Summit as well as Union Theological Seminary’s “Religions for the Earth” conference in NYC.  Here is my latest for the Huffington Post.

 

They pick up our garbage on Mondays.

AAR: Reimagining with Christian Doctrines

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My fourth book, Reimagining with Christian Doctrines:  Responding to Global Gender Injustices (Palgrave) co-edited with Jenny Daggers will be published February 2014.

This collection of essays from a diverse group of respected feminist theologians “reimagines” the doctrines of creation, Trinity, resurrection, incarnation, church, and sin in creative and always embodied ways. In particular, they seek to hear and to respond to the cries of the suffering

Gary Dorrien: Economic Democracy Then and Now

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Drs. Gary Dorrien, Steve Simmons & Craig Atwood

Dr. Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University, and an ordained Episcopal priest. He is the author of 16 books and approximately 250 articles that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. A recent past president of the American Theological Society, Professor Dorrien has been described by Princeton University philosopher Cornel West as “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today.”

Social Ethics Network

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The annual Social Ethics Network [PC (USA)] meeting was held at Union Theological Seminary (NYC), September 27-30, 2012.