Mary E. McGann, RSCJ
Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of Liturgy and Music
Franciscan School of Theology and Graduate Theological Union
1712 Euclid Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94709
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This seminar aims to explore the multiple ways in which ecological consciousness/prac- tices and liturgical consciousness/practices intersect and contextualize each other, and to develop articles/resources on this topic for the use by scholars and practitioners of worship.
FRIDAY JANUARY 6
10.30a Welcome, debriefing, morning prayer
11.15a Discussion of A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth’s Ecology (Benjamin Stewart, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2011)
1.15p MARK TORGERSON – Common Ground for Creation Care: Insights from Jewish & Christian Sources
2.10p MARY MCGANN – A Theopolitics of Water: Baptism in a Time of Global Water Crisis
3.30p PAUL GALBREATH – Lingering in Nairobi: An Eco-Liturgical Experiment in Contextuality
4.25p Resources gathered by participants, as projected in 2011
SATURDAY JANUARY 7
9.00a LISA E. DAHILL – The Advent ‘O Antiphons’ and Communal Prayer for the Earth
1.30p Members of the seminar are invited to briefly present other projects on Ecology and Liturgy
2.30p Debriefing and planning for 2013
1 What have we heard?
2 What is emerging within the group?
3 What areas of research and discussion might be a focus for next year?
A list of papers developed by members from this seminar will appear here