Green Team
Since fall 2021, the Green Team has been meeting on the third Monday of the month at Community Hour to talk about ways we can take care of creation at seminary and reduce our carbon footprint. All Southwest students, faculty, staff, and SPOTS are welcome to attend meetings of the Green Team. Check back here in August 2023 for the date of the next meeting scheduled for fall 2023. Questions? Please contact Dr. Tony Baker.
Introduction
You are invited to watch this five minute introductory video message about Green Initiatives at Seminary of the Southwest from Dr. Tony Baker, Clinton S. Quin Professor of Systematic Theology, and Liam Barr, MDiv Middler.
TEC and Creation Care
The Episcopal Church (TEC) has many resources available concerning Creation Care. Visit Creation Care online and sign up for the free online newsletter.
Poetry from the Southwest Community
Resource to suggest?
If you have a resource to suggest for this LibGuide, please contact the Harrison Library staff at library@ssw.edu.
Photo from the April 17th Community Hour hosted by the Green Team
Dr. Tony Baker and Liam Barr, MDiv '24, speak to the group gathered about green initiatives on campus.
Episcopalians invited to participate in environmental justice survey
As The Episcopal Church Creation Care Office plans its programming for the next year, it invites all Episcopalians to participate in a 5-minute confidential survey from ecoAmerica. The survey seeks to better understand church members’ attitudes toward and awareness of climate issues and our corresponding role as people of faith.
‘It's All About Love: A Festival for the Jesus Movement’
All are invited to join this churchwide festival of worship, learning, community, and action July 9-12 at the Baltimore (Maryland) Convention Center. "It's All About Love" features dozens of workshops, panel discussions, meet-ups, and more, organized around the ministries of evangelism, racial justice, and creation care. Find links for individual registration here and group registration here—and learn about the revival preachers and presenters.
Sowing Holy Questions Blog
In spring 2020, Southwest devoted Sowing Holy Questions to issues of stewardship, with most authors giving special attention to the role of humans–and the calling of Christians–as stewards or trustees of the non-human creation around us.
EcoTheo & Soul by Southwest
- EcoTheo Review
EcoTheo Review is a literary magazine edited by SSW DAS student Jason Myers that publishes original fiction, essays, poetry, visual art, as well as interviews, book reviews and scholarly articles that enliven conversations and commitments around ecology, spirituality, and art.
- Soul by Southwest: The Literary and Visual Arts Journal of Seminary of the Southwest. SSW Students/Alumni/Alumnae Works. 2020. Center for Writing and Creative Expression, Seminary of the Southwest.
Many of the journal's contributors explore themes of ecology and nature in their work.
