Syndicate Theology is very excited to introduce its new social media coordinator, the Rev. Dr. Kara Slade. Kara is currently a PhD student in theology and ethics in the Graduate Program in Religion at Duke University. Ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, she also serves as vicar of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Laurinburg, NC. She holds the PhD in mechanical engineering and materials science, also from Duke, and has worked in the aerospace engineering field in both academic and ...| Syndicate
Usually a catastrophe has at least the capacity to shake folk into fast action and cooperation. This climate crisis approaches with a more treacherous temporality: it is too fast and too slow. Too fast to prevent irreversible destruction; too slow to make it a top priority even of those who do not deny it. Just a few days after the release of the Encyclical I happened to be wandering in Glacier National Park.| Syndicate
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As I finish writing a book manuscript about the US Supreme Court 1988 case Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association, I am reminded of my first encounter with Kathleen Sands’s work. I was a doctoral student then, and what has since become an obsession with the Lyng case was just beginning to grow in me. I came across this case and was immediately intrigued because of the strong connections it had demonstrated between religion and land. See, in Israel/Palestine, where I grew u...| Syndicate