Making Peace with the Land: Embracing God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation

Posted by on August 20, 2012

Making Peace with the Land: Embracing God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation

Duke Divinity School
September 21 – 22, 2012

Co-hosted by the Duke Center for Reconciliation and the Center for Environmental Leadership

Christians have sometimes had a hard time imagining that God desires all creatures to be reconciled with each other and with God.  But the long arc of God’s redemptive love is not confined to humans.  The promise that “all things” have a place in God’s reconciling and redeeming love through Christ encompasses land, food, and the environment.  As creatures whose very existence is interdependent with the rest of creation, entering into God’s work of reconciliation begins with, and continually returns to, reconciliation with the land.  Yet we find ourselves living in an increasingly degraded world, often with little direct relationship to the plants, animals, soil, and water sources that sustain our lives.

Join us for a weekend to explore why reconciliation with creation is an essential part of God’s work of redemption, the connections between care for the land and just relationships among people, and practices for faith communities seeking a reconciled relationship with creation.

Keynote Speakers:

·         Norman Wirzba, PhD is Research Professor of Theology, Ecology and Rural Life at Duke Divinity School and author of Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating.

·         Norman Christensen, PhD is Research Professor and Founding Dean of the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment.

·         Fred Bahnson is director of the Wake Forest Divinity School Food and Faith Initiative and a co-founder of the Anathoth Community Garden.

$50 for the general public and $25 for full-time students.

More information and registration are available online.

http://divinity.duke.edu/initiatives-centers/center-reconciliation/programs/reconcilers-weekend/making-peace-land