Center for Religion and Environment

11/04/2024

Recording now available! View last evening's webinar "Churches and Climate Change after Helene" lead by the Rt. Rev. Brian Cole of the Episcopal Church in East Tennessee, Professor Andrew Thompson director of the Center for Religion and Environment, and the University of the South's Sustainability Manager Sara McIntyre. View the recording here: https://vimeo.com/1023004767

11/04/2024

[Episcopal News Service] Hurricane Helene’s unprecedented destruction upon inland communities throughout the Southeastern United States that were previously considered safely outside hurricane zone…

11/04/2024

Check out this article by the Episcopal News Service covering the School of Theology’s webinar, “Churches and Climate Change After Helene.”

[Episcopal News Service] Hurricane Helene’s unprecedented destruction upon inland communities throughout the Southeastern United States that were previously considered safely outside hurricane zone…

10/19/2024

Join us next Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. (CDT) for a webinar entitled “Churches and Climate Change After Helene” with the Right Rev. Brian Cole, bishop of the Episcopal Church in East Tennessee, Sara McIntyre sustainability coordinator at the University of South, and Andrew Thompson, associate professor of Theological Ethics and director of the Center for Religion and Environment. In this webinar, the panelists will discuss the damage the storm caused in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, the shifting calculus of climate resilience, and what churches and communities can do to respond. The session is free and open to all. Learn more and register here: https://engage.theology.sewanee.edu/register/?id=cb2ef956-baef-475b-99ba-466f23d6a921

10/09/2024

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and is chartered as a house of prayer for all people and a unifying center of intellectual light and leadership.

10/09/2024

Tomorrow (Wednesday, October 9) at 4pm EDT, our Director Andrew Thompson will join the Very Rev. Patrick Malloy, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, for a webinar entitled “Episcopal Perspectives: The Environment.” Dr. Thompson and Dr. Malloy will discuss the Episcopal Church’s stance on the pressing environmental issues confronting our society. To learn more and register for the webinar, click below:

https://www.stjohndivine.org/calendar/51289/episcopal-perspectives-the-environment

05/13/2024

CRE director Andrew Thompson's book, Reconsider the Lilies, is featured in this Christian Century Article:

Five new postcolonial perspectives on living faithfully through climate...

04/22/2024

In recognition of Earth Day yesterday, Dr. Andrew Thompson, assistant professor of theological ethics and director of the Center for Religion and Environment, preached at The Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Huntsville, Alabama. View his sermon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZoZ-uzTDg



Episcopal Creation Care

02/23/2024

We encourage you to attend "Cultivating Spiritual Resiliency in a Climate-Changed World" on Saturday, March 23rd at 10:00am at St. Mary's Convent chapel.

This event provides an opportunity to connect with and explore the Episcopal Church's climate justice work and faith. It encourages us to empower each other as we each answer our biblical call to climate action in a faithful, sustainable, and loving way.

Guest speaker Stephanie Peramas is an Episcopal Church Delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conference and an Episcopal Church Ecojustice Fellow, in addition to being a long-term Organic Prayer Program Intern.

This event is free and open to all!

02/23/2024

Join St. Mary's Convent for a Contemplative Prayer Service TONIGHT (Friday, February 23rd) at 7:00pm: "The Disappearing Night Sky."

Do you wonder where all the stars have gone? Ever miss seeing the night sky? Come learn how the night sky has been disappearing and ways you can bring it back!

All are welcome to join us for a time of prayer, music, readings, and video reflections on Friday, February 23rd at 7:00pm in the Convent chapel for this contemplative prayer service.

St Mary's Convent Sewanee, TN