COMPASSION CONSORTIUM BOOK AND FILM NIGHT: GREENFAITH

The Compassion Consortium (www.compassionconsortium.org) is a new spiritual community created to serve the needs of vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, and others who care about and advocate for animals and the planet. Its first Book and Film Night will be held at 8:00 pm ET on May 11. The featured book is GreenFaith: Mobilizing God's People to Save the Earth by Rev. Fletcher Harper. Our own Rev. Sarah Bowen will lead the discussion and Q&A with Rev. Harper at this event. In this book, Rev. Harper provides vision, inspiration, and practical tools to help you build your faith while inhabiting a creation that is at risk. With honesty and candor, Harper shows that it takes belief and practice, science and faith to sustain us and our planet. The book gives concrete examples and tips that will help people of faith and worshiping communities engage in Earth care—in bold, life-giving ways. Rev. Harper is an Episcopal priest and the Executive Director of GreenFaith.org, a global multi-faith climate and environmental justice network. An internationally recognized author, speaker, and pioneer of the worldwide religious environmental movement, he has been a leading voice in the faith community’s response to the climate crisis for the last two decades. He has worked with diverse faith leaders around the world, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and former United Nation’s Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.