EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Three, Number Three January/February 1994 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES ON THE CREATION — A COURSE THAT SPARKS EXCITEMENT "At the end of five sessions of a 13 session course, Deep Ecology and Creation-Centered Spirituality: The Interdependent Web, there was so much excitement that the group decided to do the other seven sessions, and three new people volunteered to be facilitators," writes Jean Barker, one of the facilitators. This was the enthusiastic response of 26 participants in an ecumenical study sponsored by the Environmental Concerns Committee of First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto CA. Participants agreed to read the weekly handouts and come together on five Monday evenings in the fall of 1993, with seven members taking turns as the leadership team. Each session began and ended with a ritual. The five sessions, from a curriculum designed for interfaith study groups, written by Sarajane Siegfried for the Unitarian/Universalist Church, included: Deep Ecology; Creation-Centered Spirituality; The New Physics; The Gaia Hypothesis (Earth Story); and Native American Spirituality . The other sessions scheduled for January and February, include: Bioregionalism; The Spirituality of Green Politics; Feminist and Process Theology; Animal Rights; Service — Understanding into Action; and Ritual Is Essential. For more details, write Jean Barker or Paul Burks, 1558 Mercy St., Mountain View CA 94041, (415) 962-8342. Home     Table of Contents