Sacred Trust Forum 2003
Living and Communicating a New Cosmology
September 30, 2003

4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

$25 per person ($20 students under 18 years)

 

 

Keynote Speaker:
Sr. Miriam Therese MacGillis
Miriam Therese MacGillis is a member of the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey, and lives and works at Genesis Farm which she co-founded in 1980 with the sponsorship of her congregation. The farm practices biodynamic methods of agriculture and presently over 180 families are shareholders in its economic support. Sr. Miriam is an articulate advocate of a new cosmology, a vision of humans in dynamic and life-sustaining relationship with earth, with community and with the divine. Her message is timely and timeless, spirited and inclusive.

Program:

4:00-4:30 Registration, time to look over display tables

4:30-6:00: Message from Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis

6:00-7:00 Dinner and Networking

7:00-8:00 Breakout Groups
 

8:00-9:00 Gathering, Report Back, Closing Meditation

Breakout Sessions:

Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis, the keynote speaker for this forum, is an articulate advocate of a new cosmology, a vision of humans in dynamic and life-sustaining relationship with earth, with community and with the divine. Following her presentation, we will have ten facilitated breakout groups, each focusing on a different interest area. Each group will be asked to ponder “How does it look to live this theology? How would our lives be transformed if they truly reflected this cosmology?” Break out groups will report back the the larger gathering.

 

The sessions and their facilitators are:

Preaching

The Rev. tom Carr, paster of First Baptist Church, West Hartford, and co-chair of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network and The Rev. Norman MacLeod, pastor of Christ Church, Guilford.

Buildings

Douglas Disbrow, an architect with Fletcher-Thompson, Inc., Bridgeport, and chairman of the Connecticut Green Building Council. He is a specialist in environmental design.

 

Congregational Life

Lynn Fulkerson , co-chair of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network and chair of the Committee on the Environment for the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.

Food Systems

Michael Kielty, a farmer and farm educator who runs Maple Spring Farms in Morris and teaches at the University of Connecticut.

 

Community Gardening

Donna Gordon, community gardening coordinator for the Knox Parks Foundation, Hartford.

 

Energy Systems

Brooke Suter, Connecticut director, Clean Water Action and a collaborator with SmartPower on the “20% by 2010” Campaign.

 

Urban Justice

Sharon Lewis, Hartford Envirnomnetal Justice Network project director.

 

Transportation

Sandra Fry, principal transportation planner, Capitol Region Council of Govenments. She coordinates the Bike to Work program for the capitol region.

 

Youth Education

Mindy Shilansky, chair of the Interreligious Eco-Justice Network Youth Initiative program and a Christian educator at First Baptist Church of West Hartford and David Blumenkrantz, founding director of the Center for the Advancement of Youth, Family and Community Service, Glastonbury.

 

Life Styles

Kathryn Jesch, coordinator of the Unitarian Universalist national program on environment living, the Green Sanctuary Program.

 

Presented by:
Hartford Seminary
Interreligious Eco-Justice Network, a partner of SmartPower 20 by 2010 Campaign

Location:
St. Patrick’s St. Anthony’s Church
285 Church Street
Hartford, CT 06103

For further details:
info@irejn.org

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