Deep Green Faith Workshop

Retreat Highlights

• - transformative one-day workshop invites participants
• - rediscover Christianity's deep ecological roots
• - Drawing on monastic wisdom and contemplative practice
• - the day explores how growth in virtue includes our relationship with all creation
• - how core Christian doctrines ground our care for the earth
• - moving environmental concern from the margins to the center of faithful living
• - Experience how deepening your connection with creation deepens your connection with God.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

John

Robin

John Gatta

John Gatta is Emeritus Professor of English both at the University of Connecticut and at Sewanee, where he has also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.  A long-time staff member of the Center for Deep Green Faith, he has taught as well at the University of Missouri, as a Fulbright lecturer in Senegal, and in South Africa. Much of his teaching and research has addressed theological topics, as well as American environmental literature and the interplay between religious faith and literary imagination. Among his many publications are books such as Green Gospel: Foundations of Ecotheology, The Transfiguration of Christ and Creation, Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture, Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present, and (forthcoming) Green Worlds of C.S. Lewis: the Ecology of Aslan’s Realm.

Robin Gottfried

Robin Gottfried is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Founding Director (Retired) of the Center for Religion and Environment, The University of the South. He has published and taught extensively in the areas of environment and sustainability, including the intersection of Christianity, economics, ecology, and spirituality. He is the author of The Audacious Great Singing School Adventure, Living in an Icon: A Program for Growing Closer to Creation and to God, and Economics, Ecology, and the Roots of Western Faith: Perspectives from the Garden. He currently is working on a new book, Building God’s Home: Creation Caring, Spiritual Formation, and the Renewal of the Church.

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