HOPE Conference videos (and articles)
I’m posting some articles from last Spring about the HOPE Conference, along with a link to some recently posted videos of the talks.
Since it takes a while to watch them, I just watched the ones by the bishops so far. Part 1 of the PB’s address should be of particular interest to animal people, for various reasons. I’ll let you watch it to figure out why I think so. (Hint: She talks about the need to eat lower on the food chain, and goes into detail about the demise of the oceans, fish and other sea life. She is one of two Episcopalians, who isn’t an “animal person”, who has had the conviction and the courage to speak openly about the “other” Inconvenient Truth, about the impact of animal agriculture on climate change, and how our food choices affect people in the developing world.)
Healing Our Planet Earth’s website
Here’s the page that links to the videos of the various speakers’ talks.
Here’s an article I found. In the paragraph that says,
“Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori addressed the conference, her second speech to a Seattle gathering in as many days. On Friday night (April 11), she spoke at the dedication of a new work at the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park, encouraging the crowd to create “a climate of change” through embracing the Genesis Covenant — a plan to reduce the carbon footprint of churches, synagogues, and mosques, and their members, by a minimum of 50 percent by 2015.”
the hyperlinked word “addressed” links to a .pdf file of (one of) her talk(s).
I’d also like to recommend Bishop Charleston’s address, especially Part 2, because what he is proposing with The Genesis Covenant is something I would like to see happen in the not-too-distant future with an animal issue (similar to what the Multi-Faith religious leaders did with “A Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion”, but involving religious bodies, and not just representatives of them.
Tags: Bishop Charleston, HOPE Conference, Multi-Faith, Presiding Bishop, The Genesis Covenant