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  • Epiphany West 2010
    January 25-29

    • Sacred Elements:
    Creating Sustainable Earth Communities

    "Water, air, fire, and earth are deeply imagined ways of exploring and comprehending the world within and around us. The elements link all bodies, spiritually, economically, and ecologically, in a way that allows us to imagine a greater integration of our lives with all other lives. A fifth element, a quintessence, creatively integrated the elements, binding them through a cosmic Logos that rhymes with and beyond reason towards fourfold wisdom."

    ~ Marion S, Grau, PhD
    Associate Professor of Theology
    Church Divinity School of the Pacific,
    Conference Keynote Speaker

    Epiphany West courses, lectures, films, worship services, and an art opening invite a textured conversation within a diverse community of scholars, authors, ministers, activists, artists and more on the role faith can play in creating visions of economically- and environmentally-sustainable relationships to creation and how communities of faith may be involved in realizing these visions. Join us for a week, a day, an afternoon, or evening of abundant conversation and committed planning toward meaningful action on the Church Divinity School of the Pacific campus in the lush Berkeley Hills.

    Conference Plenary Speakers:

    Wednesday, January 27, 2:00 PM

    Isabel Mukonyora, PhD

    "Dancing Together Under the Moonlight: Old and New African Sensibility for Preserving Life on Earth"

    Dr. Mukonyora is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Western Kentucky University and the author, among a number of publications on African-initiated churches, religion and ecology, women and religion, interpretations of the Bible in Africa, of Wandering a Gendered Wilderness: Suffering and Healing in an African Initiated Church (2007).

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    Thursday, January 28, 9:00 AM

    Safei-Eldin Hamed, PhD

    "Islam, Environment, and the Quest for a Sustainable Earth"

    Dr. Hamed is Program Director of Landscape Studies at Chatham University and the author of numerous books and articles on environmental planning, landscape architecture, and sustainability issues in Arab-Muslim cultures, including Landscape Planning for the Arid Middle East: An Approach to Setting Environmental Objectives (2002)

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    Thursday, January 28, 2:00 PM

    Patricia Watts

    "Ecological & Environmental Aesthetics: Artists Addressing Environmental Issues"

    Patricia Watts has researched art and nature practitioners since 1994. She is founder and west coast curator of Ecoartspace, a nonprofit platform organizing exhibitions and programs in collaboration with artists who address environmental issues in the visual arts. She was Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California (2005-08), where she curated "Hybrid Fields," an exhibition of artists who create socially engaged art that inhabits a hybrid space where art and life, art and agriculture, converge. Ms. Watts' lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE), an affiliate center of the Graduate Theological Union.

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    Keynote Address:

    Friday, January 29, 9:00 AM

    Marion S. Grau, PhD

    "Elements of Renewal: Fourfold Wisdom"

    Dr. Grau is Associate Professor of Theology at Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and author of Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption (2004) and co-editor, with Rosemary Radford Ruether, of Interpreting the Postmodern: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy (2006). A constructivist and contextual theologian, Dr. Grau's research and teaching focuses on integrating the wisdom of tradition with new insights from feminist, postcolonial, and cultural studies to reimage and remember ourselves as part of the world in a way that will transform our relationship with it.

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    Conference Schedule:

    Monday, January 25
     
    Time Event Location Session Leader
     
    10:00 AM Pre-Conference registration opens Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00    		 PM Pre-Conference Class A:
    "Environmental Sustainability and Economic Justice Across Borders"    		 CDSP Classroom A The Rev. Mark Adams, US Coordinator of the Mexican/American Border Ministry Frontera de Cristo
     
      Pre-Conference Class B:
    "What's a Meadow For? Communicating Nature and Sustainability through Proxies and Metaphors"    		 CDSP Classroom B Mark Collins, Award-Winning Author and Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh
     

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    Tuesday, January 26
     
    Time Event Location Session Leader(s)
     
    7:00 AM
    to 8:30    		 AM Continental Breakfast Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    7:30 AM
    to 8:15 AM    		 Paperless Morning Song All Saints Chapel George Emblom, Director of Chapel Music, Lecturer in Church Music, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 Pre-Conference Class C:
    "Gardens of Faith: Insights from the Episcopal Church Gardening Movement"    		 CDSP Classroom A The Rev. Dcn. Phina Borgeson is an Episcopal deacon living in Santa Rosa, CA, where she is involved in food system issues, and a lecturer in ministry development at Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

    John Jeavons, author and Executive Director of Ecology Action, a sustainable agriculture non-profit in Willits, CA
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 Pre-Conference Class D:
    "Muslims Going Green"    		 CDSP Classroom B Ameena Jandali is a founding member of Islamic Networks Group (ING), a San Jose, CA-based non-profit committed to promoting interreligious understanding, tolerance and harmony by increasing religious literacy. She is joined by panelists from ING's speakers’ bureau.
     
    11:00 AM
    to 2:00 PM    		 Conference Registration Opens Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00 PM    		 Conference Class I:
    "Money, Faith, and Sustainability"    		 CDSP Classroom A Michael Schut, Economic and Environmental Affairs Officer of The Episcopal Church, and author of Money and Faith: The Search for Enough (2009).
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00 PM    		 Conference Class II:
    "Sustaining Body: Yoga and the Sacred Elements"    		 CDSP Classroom B Antonia Fokken, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Yoga Therapist in private practice in Oakland, CA.
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00 PM    		 Conference Class III:
    "Ecotheology for the Parish"    		 Easton Hall Library The Rev. Diane Bowers, Ph.D., a Lutheran pastor and an independent scholar and writer from Berkeley, CA. She has taught theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and has been a course designer for the Center for Anglican Learning & Leadership at CDSP.
     
    7:00 PM
    to 9:30 PM    		 Film Session Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE):

    "Heart and Soil: A Compelling Claim for Sustainable Agriculture"    		 CDSP Refectory Fr. Christopher Renz, OP, Academic Dean
    Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts and Science and Theology, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
     
    Note CARE co-sponsored sessions are free and open to the public
     

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    Wednesday, January 27
     
    Time Event Location Session Leader(s)
     
    7:00 AM
    to 8:30 AM    		 Continental Breakfast Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    7:30 AM
    to 8:15 AM    		 Morning Yoga All Saints Chapel Antonia Fokken. See Tuesday schedule for details.
     
    7:30 AM
    to 9:00 AM    		 Conference Registration Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 Conference Class IV:
    "Eucharistic Hiking: A Wilderness Worship Experience"    		 Meet at CDSP Refectory for car-pooled travel to Tilden Park.

    Note: Please wear comfortable hiking shoes, weather-appropriate clothing, and bring a water canteen. The hike will take place rain or shine.    		 The Rev. Jon Anderson, founder of Worship in the Wilderness, a weekly hiking worship service in Santa Fe, NM
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 "Living Goals: Sustainability and the Millennium Development Goals" CDSP Classroom B Brian Sellers-Petersen, Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD): Director of Church Engagement Programs
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 "Creature Comfort: Redeeming Our Relationships with Nonhuman Animals" CDSP Classroom A Marilyn Matevia PhD (Cand.) is a student at the Graduate Theological Union studying ethics and social theory, especially as it applies to all of God’s creatures. She is a contributor to Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children (2002).
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00 PM    		 Plenary Address 1:
    "Dancing Together Under the Moonlight: Old and New African Sensibility for Preserving Life on Earth"    		 CDSP Classroom A Dr. Isabel Mukonyora. See description above.
     
    5:00 PM Conference Eucharist All Saints Chapel The Rt. Rev. Marc H. Andrus, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, Presiding

    Mike Schut, Economic and Environmental Affairs Officer of the Episcopal Church, Preaching
     
    6:00 PM
    to 9:30 PM    		 Film Session and Reception Co-Sponsored by the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE):

    "Renewal," a film on the religious environmental movement.    		 CDSP Refectory The Rt. Rev. Marc H. Andrus and Dr. Sheila Andrus
     
    Note CARE co-sponsored sessions are free and open to the public
     

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    Thursday, January 28
     
    Time Event Location Session Leader(s)
     
    7:00 AM
    to 8:30 AM    		 Continental Breakfast Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    7:30 AM
    to 8:15 AM    		 Paperless Morning Song All Saints Chapel George Emblom. See Tuesday schedule for details.
     
    7:30 AM
    to 9:00 AM    		 Conference Registration Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 Plenary Address 2:

    "Islam, Environment, and the Quest for a Sustainable Earth"    		 CDSP Refectory Dr. Safei Hamed. See description above.
     
    11:00 AM Eucharist All Saints Chapel N/A
     
    2:00 PM
    to 4:00 PM    		 Plenary Address 3:

    "Ecological & Environmental Aesthetics: Artists Addressing Environmental Issues"    		 CDSP Classroom A Patricia Watts. See description above.
     
    5:00 PM
    to 7:00 PM    		 "Muse/Reuse: Visual Reflections on Sustainability"

    Juried Multi-Media Art Exhibition and Reception Sponsored by the Center for the Arts, Religion and Education (CARE)    		 Doug Adams Gallery, Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion

    And

    Easton Hall Conference Center, CDSP    		 Carin Jacobs, Director, Center for the Arts, Religion, and Education (CARE)
     
    Note CARE Co-sponsored sessions are free and open to the public
     

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    Friday, January 29
     
    Time Event Location Session Leader(s)
     
    7:00 AM
    to 8:30 AM    		 Continental Breakfast Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    7:30 AM
    to 8:15 AM    		 Morning Yoga All Saints Chapel Antonia Fokken. See Tuesday schedule for details.
     
    7:30 AM
    to 9:00 AM    		 Conference Registration Tucson Common Room N/A
     
    9:00 AM
    to 11:00 AM    		 Keynote Address:

    "Elements of Renewal: Fourfold Wisdom"    		 CDSP Refectory Dr. Marion Grau. See description above.
     
    11:00 AM
    to 12:00 PM    		 Conversation, Community, and Commitment: Extending Practices of Sustainability CDSP Refectory Church Divinity School of the Pacific Student Facilitators
     

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