Words for a Dying World:
Book Study Group
Four Mondays in November
12:45-2:00 pm (Eastern) • Online via Zoom
$30 per person covers all four sessions
* In order to make this program accessible to all, we are offering an unlimited number of full scholarships.
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
This Thursday, October 28
“...if grief is an expression of love, our grief takes on the shape of the places and creatures to whom we intimately belong. We mourn the death of the world because it is where we come from.” – Hannah Malcolm
This November, we invite you to join a reading group using the collection of essays Words for a Dying World: Stories of Grief and Courage from the Global Church, edited by Hannah Malcolm. As part of The BTS Center’s season of programming around ecological grief, we will gather to share responses and conversation around the text, as well as ritual and grounding for our grief.
Over the course of four weekly sessions, we will read and discuss select essays from the book as a way of understanding ecological grief as both local and global, particular and universal. The program is oriented toward spiritual leaders* who are experiencing their own grief and may be seeking resources for their communities.
We hope to offer a theologically grounded space in which to deeply engage with the spiritual impact of the climate crisis, as well as a place in which to begin to name our losses and understand the ways in which we are carrying our grief.
* We define “spiritual leaders” broadly to include not only clergy and other faith leaders, but also engaged laypersons with leadership roles, nonprofit leaders, chaplains, spiritual directors, students, university and seminary faculty, denominational executives, and others with a committed and world-engaging spiritual practice.
Dates
All sessions are at 12:45-2:00 pm (Eastern) • hosted on Zoom
- Monday, November 1, 2021
- Monday, November 8, 2021
- Monday, November 15, 2021
- Monday, November 22, 2021
Book purchasing
Order from Print: A Bookstore here.
Order for your Kindle (or other e-reader) here.
Order from the publisher here.
Book scholarships are available as needed.
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About the book
How do we talk about climate grief in the church? And when we have found the words, what do we do with that grief?
There is a sudden and dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent need for churches to be better resourced pastorally and theologically to deal with this threat.
Words for a Dying World brings together voices from across the world — from the Pacific islands to the pipelines of Canada, from farming communities in Namibia to activism in the UK.
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AND AS A CULMINATING EVENT:
PUBLIC CONVERSATION
with Editor Hannah Malcolm
+ contributor Anupama Ranawana
Thursday, December 16
4 pm (Eastern) • Online
Hannah Malcolm is training to be a priest in the Church of England and writing a PhD on theology and climate and ecological grief. She regularly speaks on the Church and climate, and has written for Theos Think Tank, Church Times, and Christian Climate Action's Time to Act.
Anupama Ranawana is a writer and theologian based in Oxford. Her work focuses primarily on feminist religious thought and decolonial and critical race theory approaches to religion and global politics.
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Lament with Earth
Five seasonal events honoring the pain of loss through the liturgical year
Thursday, October 28
7:30-8:30 pm (Eastern) • via Zoom
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To create space for the reality of ecological grief, The BTS Center has teamed up with The Many, an extraordinary group of songwriters, spoken word artists, and liturgists, to create Lament with Earth — five seasonal online events which will include original music, poetry, rituals, images, scripture and videos to reflect different seasons of loss through the liturgical year. The first is this Thursday, October 28, and four additional gatherings will follow in the coming months. These events will be interactive, inviting you to pray and sing along.
This event series is free, but contributions will be gratefully received to support The BTS Center's partnership with The Many and ongoing eco-grief programming.
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Stillpoint
Join a weekly facilitated online group — a sacred, prayerful space to "tune in and touch in" to the ecological and climate losses we are all experiencing but not necessarily expressing
Six sessions on Wednesdays
November 3 – December 8, 2021
4:30-5:15 pm (Eastern) • via Zoom
$30 Cohort participant fee
* In order to make this program accessible to all, we are offering an unlimited number of full scholarships. If this would be helpful to you, please select the $0 payment option.
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Note: We are planning three other Stillpoint cohorts for Jan.-Feb., March-April and May-June, days and times TBD. |
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Our mission is to catalyze spiritual imagination with enduring wisdom for transformative faith leadership. We offer theologically grounded programs of continuing education and spiritual formation, including workshops and retreats, learning cohorts, public conversations, and projects of applied research.
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