ONLINE, NOT IN PERSON: Spiritual Practices for a Time of Climate Crisis

NOTE: Due to the current need for physical distancing, this service will be conducted online using Zoom, not meeting in person. We recommend people connect around 10:15 to work out any connection issues and say hello before the service starts.

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Service Description:

This sermon is the third in a series that began with the sermon, “The Times They Are A-Changin'” followed with Being a Decent Human Being in a Time of Climate Crisis”

What wisdom can we bring from world religious traditions for spiritual practices in times of deep crisis, particularly the ecological crisis we are facing as a species? This sermon explores stories of facing the depth.

Rev. Dr. Michelle Walsh, LICSW is a Unitarian Universalist community minister and shares a private justice consulting and spiritual coaching practice with her husband, Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs known as Tuckerman Creative Ministries for Justice & Healing.  She also has worked as a scholar activist for many years in urban contexts, teaches as a Lecturer at Boston University, and is the author of Violent Trauma, Culture and Power: An Interdisciplinary Exploration in Lived Religion as well as chapters in other volumes. Through CREW of Boston (Communities Responding to Extreme Weather), Rev. Walsh provides local congregational education workshops as well.

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