Starr King School for the Ministry

https://www.sksm.edu/

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This project supports Starr King School for the Ministry in integrating the realities of climate collapse and interrelated systemic global injustices into the heart of the seminary’s courses in religious education and faith development. In addition, in the spring of 2025, this project will allow Starr King School to partner with the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley to hold a conference with both in-person and virtual attendance options to empower current students, alumni, and faith leaders both lay and ordained to engage the implications of the climate crisis in their approaches to religious education in the broadest sense. They will consider questions such as, how can leaders, both lay and ordained, grow their own and their congregants’ capacities to face human complicity and responsibility, or in other words, grow their capacities to live, love, lead, and die on a transforming planet where all life is interconnected? This is a question for consideration and action everywhere religious education and faith development occur and will be the organizing framework for the conference.

Contact information

Rev. Dr. Sheri Prud'homme
Core Faculty - Assistant Professor of Religion and Education
sprudhomme@sksm.edu
Rev. Marcus Liefert
Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
revmarcus@uucb.org
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