Climate and Culture
You’re thinking a lot these days about what to do about the environment and the climate crisis and its impact on the world’s most vulnerable, including our nonhuman relatives on the planet, right?
Or rather, you were thinking about, but then something else really urgent (or if not urgent, at least distracting) came up and demanded your attention. But you keep trying to get back to that environment thing. Because it’s important. But it’s hard, right? I hear you. Because it’s so big. And scary. And hopeless? No, not hopeless, but come on, look around. We’ve got wildfires, and floods, and droughts, and extinctions. And the existential threats are so deeply enmeshed with our economic systems and our social habits and our theological justifications. It can be really hard to think about this stuff.
You know what helps? Talking it out with other people. In a community of others who also want to wrestle with how to live with respect in Creation, how to transform despair into action, how to face the scary with clear-eyed hope and practical faith.
That’s what the Eco-Justice learning circle as CCS is, and that’s why you want to take part as continuing education this October 16 to 22, 2024 at the Centre for Christian Studies in Winnipeg. The tuition cost is $900. For more information about Continuing Studies, email info@ccsonline.ca .
What’s that other thing you’re thinking about these days? Oh right, other people. And how other people are so beautiful. And weird. And wonderful in their diversity. That goes for you too. You’re pretty beautiful, weird, and wonderful in your diversity.
How can we celebrate that? Not just tolerate it, but embrace it as gift. How can we build up our cultural competence so that we can better understand each other, so that we recognize the ways that our values and customs are shaped by our culture and can be open to what’s unique about others, so that we can navigate difference not just because we ought to but because we know that that’s where the good stuff is?
The Culture and Identity learning circle is all about this. It’s a chance to learn about yourself as an individual and as a part of a group – not a static fixed-in-time clearly defined noun but an active verb, changing and being changed as you interact with others in God’s diversity. October 24-30, 2024 at the Centre for Christian Studies in Winnipeg. The tuition cost is $900. For more information about Continuing Studies, email info@ccsonline.ca .
Did you see the title of this post and say, “Yes, I want to think about the relationship between climate change and culture?” Fair enough. You know what? These two learning circles are back-to-back. You could spend two weeks with us and make those connections. We’d love to join you on that journey.
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