by umcjnews | Sep 29, 2022 | Blog, Higher Education, News
By Timothy Eberhart In April of this past year, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary launched a new Center for Ecological Regeneration, with a mission to spread regenerative theological understandings, earth-based religious practices, and cooperative solidarities...
by umcjnews | Sep 29, 2022 | Annual Conferences, Blog, News
South Central: The next SCJ meeting will be Tuesday, December 13 at 3:00 p.m. CT. At that time we will have a recap of COP27 and a discussion of episcopal assignments and how they may potentially impact creation justice. Meetings are generally on the 2nd Tuesday of...
by umcjnews | Sep 29, 2022 | Higher Education, News
By Becky Copeland Boston University School of Theology, the oldest American Methodist theological school,launched its Faith and Ecological Justice (FEJ) Certificate in the fall of 2019. By exploringtheological, artistic, spiritual, political, and ethical...
by umcjnews | Sep 27, 2022 | Higher Education, News
By Rev. Dr. Mark Y. A. Davies As the Executive Director of the Leadership, Education, and Development (LEAD) Hub United States for the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM), I have had the privilege of leading the LEAD Hubs’s Social and Ecological...
by umcjnews | Sep 24, 2022 | Blog, Higher Education, News
By Nathan Brasfield and Dr. Martha Lyle Ford In 2018, Memphis Theological Seminary held its first “Green Team” meeting. It could hardly be called a formal meeting; it was more a conversation among a few MTS staff members who were plugged in to various creation care...