The Teach-in with be held at: Second Presbyterian Church, 3511 Belmont Blvd in Nashville TN (Also hosted online).
This event will explore the interconnectedness of ecological and social justice issues. It will feature workshops and presentations based in the new book: “Liberating People Planet and Religion” edited by Joerg Rieger and Terra Rowe.
Presenters and Workshop Leaders Include:
Daniel Joranko is the Coordinator of the Creation Care Ministry of the Tennessee-Western Kentucky Conference of the United Methodist Church and serves as a volunteer organizer with Tennessee Interfaith Power and Light. He is a former lecturer at the Vanderbilt Divinity School – where he also coordinated the VDS-Riverbend Prison Teaching Program.
Jeremy Posadas holds the Hal. S. Marchman Chair of Civic and Social Responsibility at Stenson University (in Central Florida) along with a joint appointment in religious studies and gender studies. Amongst his extensive scholarly work he has created the “United Regions of America” map, which groups all 3,142 counties into 14 regions that calibrate common perceptions with dominant landscapes and industries.
Jorge Rieger is distinguished professor of theology, Cal Turner Chancellors Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of twenty-six books on focused on religion, economic and ecological justice.
Terra Schwerin Rowe is associate professor in the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Texas, a leading program on environmental philosophy. Her most recent book is “Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology.”