Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15 AM
Listening, Hearing, and Living Series: Journey of the Universe with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
What does the ancient-yet-evergreen wisdom of the monastic tradition have to teach about care for our shining blue planet? How are we to understand our “right place” in the universe? In what ways do science and our spiritual wisdom intersect to heal our world—and ourselves in the process?
Join Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim directors of the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology as we explore the dynamic intersection of wisdom, science, and the monastic way. The morning features a screening of the film Journey of the Universe as a visual meditation that will launch our dialogue with Mary Evelyn and John.
Separate Afternoon Workshop
All are welcome to register for a special afternoon workshop that focuses on action we can take in the world. Discover the profoundly simple ways that the wisdom and practice of the monastic tradition can foster radical balance in our lives and reconciling transformation in our world.
Whatever your life stage, faith tradition, or perspective you will be welcome!
About the Listening, Hearing, and Living series
These once-a-month, Saturday sessions set apart time and space to listen for the ancient yet evergreen rhythms embodied in the monastic way of Saint Benedict— a gentle model for practical, balanced, harmonious living. In this “monastery beyond walls” we still ourselves to hear deep spiritual wisdom for our lives— our families, our work, and our relationships. We gather with the support and encouragement of others of like intention to live lives that embrace balance and foster reconciliation and renewal throughout our world.
We listen, we hear, we live.
In a dynamic learning dialogue woven from the wisdom and practice of scholars, leaders, and active contemplatives steeped in the Benedictine tradition, we enrich our experience of community, wisdom, and transformation. Sessions can be experienced independently or as part of a complete series each year. Whatever your life stage, faith tradition, or perspective, you are welcome.
About Journey of the Universe
At its heart, this 60 minute documentary celebrates the collective inspiration of a lively and prolific 30-year-friendship between three visionaries in the fields of science, evolutionary philosophy and world religions—Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker and Brian Thomas Swimme. We live in a universe of remarkable creativity that has evolved over some 14 billion years. The goal of Journey of the Universe is to tell the story of cosmic and Earth evolution drawing on the latest scientific knowledge, in a way that makes it profoundly relevant and deeply moving to the viewer. What emerges is an intensely poetic story, which evokes emotions of awe, excitement, fear, joy and belonging.
Beautifully filmed in HD, our story begins on the historically rich Greek island of Samos, birthplace of mathematician Pythagoras. Disembarking on the island at dawn, Swimme expertly guides us on an exhilarating trek through time and space, sharing a wondrous view of cosmic evolution as a process based on immense creativity, connection, and interdependence.
Order of the Day
10 am - Gather for registration with light refreshments in Perry Auditorium, 7th floor
10:15 am - Welcome, Centering, and Setting of Intention
10:45 am - Presentation of the film, followed by discussion with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
12:45–1:30 pm (optional lunch gathering with the speakers) - Hospitality
Shared Meal: Brown bag lunch and facilitated conversation with guest speakers
To more richly experience the fellowship and hospitality along the Benedictine way, you are invited to stay for an optional brown bag meal from 12:45 to 1:30 pm. Bring a lunch to share or pick one up in the Cathedral Store. There is always plenty to go around!
The Journey of the Universe events are offered in partnership with The Emerging Earth Community, the Journey of the Universe Project, and Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light.
About John Grim
John Grim is senior lecturer and research scholar at Yale University with appointments at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies and the Center for Bioethics. Both he and Mary Evelyn Tucker direct the master’s program in Religion and Ecology at Yale.
He is also coordinator of the Forum on Religion and Ecology with Mary Evelyn, and series editor with her of “World Religions and Ecology,” from the Harvard Center for the Study of World Religions. In that series he edited Indigenous Traditions & Ecology: the Interbeing of Cosmology & Community (Harvard, 2001). He is also the author of The Shaman (Oklahoma University Press, 1983). With Mary Evelyn he edited Worldviews and Ecology (Orbis, 5th printing 2000), and a Daedalus volume (2001) entitled Religion and Ecology: Can the Climate Change?
About Mary Evelyn Tucker
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, the Divinity School, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Center for Bioethics. 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.