past events : Renewing Hope
“You cause grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for people to use, to bring forth food from the earth, and wine to gladden the human heart, oil to make the face shine, and bread to strengthen the human heart.” ~Psalm 104:14-15
Friday, February 29, 2008 - Sunday, March 2, 2008
Yale University
Renewing Hope: Pathways of Religious Environmentalism is a conference sponsored by the Yale Divinity School, and the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, The Interdisciplinary center for Bioethics and the Food, Farming and Faith Project of the Humane Society of America. Three current and one former staff member of Faith in Place will be attending the conference, and Rev. Clare Butterfield will be included in a panel on ideas in action on Saturday. The conference features the new documentary Renewal, and many of the people in the film (including Faith in Place people) will be attending.
