Duke Divinity School Retreat Taught Attendees ‘How to Use Their Faith Traditions’ to Fight Climate Change
“Through a series of individual and group activities, more than two dozen fellows from around the world shared their thoughts and their sacred texts”
This makes perfect sense when you consider the fact that the left treats climate change as a religion.
Campus Reform reports:
Duke Divinity School hosts interfaith retreat to address ‘global moral crisis’ of climate change
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina recently held a week-long retreat that focused on incorporating spiritual communities to combat climate change.
Duke Divinity School, in collaboration with an organization specializing in faith-based climate activism, taught attendees how to use “their faith traditions to address the challenges of Earth’s changing climate” during the social justice conference.
“Climate change is a global moral crisis at heart and should be studied and imagined as such by those who are working to make significant sustained solutions to this monumental challenge that humanity faces,“ event co-organizer and Duke Divinity School Professor Abdullah Antepli told Duke Today.
“Through a series of individual and group activities, more than two dozen fellows from around the world shared their thoughts and their sacred texts, prayed together, and learned from others who have brought faith into environmental activism,” according to Duke Today.
Faith For Our Planet (FFOP) partnered with the school to facilitate the event from Jan. 8 – 14. The organization “bridges the gap among religious leaders, policy experts, environmentalists, and scientists from various backgrounds to fight climate change together.”
According to its website, FFOP is “is seeded by Muslim World League, one of of [sic] the largest non-governmental Islamic organizations in the world.”
Selected fellows from around the globe “met with Duke faculty from divinity and policy, nursing and medicine, the Nicholas School and Institute, and the Fuqua School of Business and received prayers from their fellows of the Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu and Sikh faiths.”
Fellows reportedly attended event sessions like, “Incorporating climate narratives in religious sermons,” “Sikh Action on Climate Change,” “Championing youth inclusion on environmental decision making,” and “E-Advocacy Training by the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers.” The fellows included “elected representatives, faith leaders, eco-activists, climate entrepreneurs, sustainability experts, researchers, and policy advocates.”
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This doesn’t surprise me. The United Methodist Church has become more of a universalist church rather than a Christian church. In NC, that’s driven by Duke University. And that is why so many congregations are leaving. I voted with my feet and left.
Activities like this seem to have a number of unstated assumptions. One might be that prior to the industrial revolution, the earth’s climate was in a state of equilibrium. The earth’s climate has never been in such a state. Another assumption is that consuming energy to gain wealth is bad. In reality, the increased consumption of higher quality energy (Dung/wood –> coal –> oil –> natural gas) has resulted in such side effects as better and more nutrition, better health care, and better water & sanitation. I suspect, however, that their assumptions will remain unstated.
church has alwayssss been lefty
the facade of pro life doesnt mesh with their actual actions whne it comes to taking care of people or their agenda of having allll the material goods cause YOUR rewards are in heaven ,,,according to the scriptures
Proofread, please.
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