Mary Evelyn Tucker PhD
The Interfaith Shared Scholar 2020
Lecture: “The Interface between Environmental Concerns & Spirituality”
Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 4:00 PM
Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ
2050 Periwinkle Way
Sanibel, FL 33957
Seminar: “Thomas Berry & the Rights of Nature”
Monday, January 27 from 9AM – 1PM
Sanibel Congregational United Church of Christ
Mary Evelyn Tucker, with co-authors John Grim and Andrew Angyal, has written the first biography about Thomas Berry, one of the 20th Century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. A former historian of world religions, his insights about humans’ relationship to the cosmos and our interdependence with a living Earth inspire and provoke a wider and deeper awareness of who we are.
Mary Evelyn and John were not only Berry’s students for over thirty years, they were editors and most importantly, dear friends. These dynamic and insightful scholars are all engaging story tellers.
You won’t want to miss hearing about Berry’s wisdom, Earth Jurisprudence,
“The Journey of the Universe”, and opportunities for the 21st Century.
Read “Thomas Berry & The Rights of Nature”
KOSMOS Magazine
https://www.kosmosjournal.org/kj_article/thomas-berry-and-the-rights-of-nature/
Mary Evelyn Tucker is a Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University where she has appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies as well as the Divinity School and the Department of Religious Studies. She teaches in the joint MA program in religion and ecology and directs the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale with her husband, John Grim. Her special area of study is Asian religions. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Japanese Confucianism.
Tucker’s concern for the growing environmental crisis, especially in Asia, led her to organize, with John Grim, a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard (1995-1998). After the conference series she and Grim founded the Forum on Religion and Ecology at a culminating conference at the United Nations in 1998. They now direct the Forum at Yale where they also teach religion and ecology. http://fore.yale.edu/
The Shared Scholar programs are an interfaith offering sponsored by the Captiva Chapel by the Sea, Bat Yam - Temple of the Islands, Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, Christian Science Church of Sanibel and SCUCC, as well as the Leo Rosner Foundation.
For more information, call 239-472-0497 or visit www.sanibelucc.org