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Environmental Ethics Videos
Title: Animal Rights; Lecture and Discussion by Andrew Linsey
Catalog #: VEM 013 Production: VHS. 1 hour, 50 minutes.
October 1989.
Format: Lecture/Presentation Audience: Adults
Lecture at St. Mark's Ecology-Spirituality group.
Dr. Andrew Linsey, British animal rights activist, discusses attitudes toward animals from a Christian perspective.
Title: Christian Frugality Rediscovered, with Dr. James Nash
Catalog #: VEM 067 Production: VHS. Earth Ministry, 1995.
Format: Lecture/Presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry's 1995 Fall Gathering, October 26, 1995.
Dr. James Nash is the Executive Director of the Churches' Center for Theology and Public Policy, a national, ecumenical research center in Washington, D.C. The Center links theological/ethical reflection and Christian action on public policy, in order to strengthen the political witness of the churches. Dr. Nash is also Lecturer in Social and Ecological Ethics at Wesley Theological Seminary. His Loving Nature: Ecological Integrity and Christian Responsibility has become one of the basic texts on Christian environmental ethics.
Dr. Nash, one of the church's foremost environmental ethicists, in his upcoming book on frugality, states that it is only in the last fifty years that we have separated our faith from the virtue of frugality.
Title: Economics for Community: The Role of the Church
Catalog #: VEM 040-2 Production: VHS. 2 tapes. 2 hr.15
min. Earth Ministry, 1995.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry Lecture Series, Workshop with Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr.
VEM 040-2: 1 hr. 20 min. Workshop. September 9,1995. Seattle University: "Economics for Community: The Role of the Church." The workshop considers the kinds of communities the economy should serve and how it can serve them. Although the Church is not one of these communities, it is uniquely related to them. It can play a distinctive role in helping local communities to gain some control over their economies. And the Church can challenge policy makers at all levels to rethink the relation of the economy to political institutions representative of these communities.
VEM 040-3: 55 min. Workshop, continuation.
Title: Economism, Earthism, and the Christian Faith
Catalog #: VEM 040-1 Production: VHS. 2 tapes. 2 hr.
22 min. Earth Ministry, 1995.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
The first in the Frontiers of Environmental Theology Lecture Series. September 8, 1995.
VEM 040-1: 1 hr. 30 min. Dr. John B. Cobb, Jr.: "Economism, Earthism, and the Christian Faith"
Since World War II economic growth has replaced national power and well-being as the primary goal of society. The result of this "economism" is the exclusion of the poor and the rape of the earth. The strongest and most hopeful reaction has been a new devotion to the earth. Christians need to appraise "economism" and "earthism" and find their own contribution.
VEM 040-4: 52 min. Interview with John B. Cobb, Jr.
Title: Environmental Ethics in Action
Catalog #: VEM 071 Production: VHS. Earth Ministry, 1996.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry's Winter Gathering,1996.
Dr. Robert Stivers, professor of Ethics at Pacific Lutheran University addresses the question of how religious people are to minister to the earth. The process of discerning how to do this begins in personal faith and its empowering spirituality. Enabled to act with integrity, Christians seek guidelines in the traditions of the Church and their own experience of the Holy Spirit. They understand themselves as members of human communities that seek justice and provide the basic necessities of life. They also understand themselves as members of natural communities that have intrinsic value and are interconnected through delicate and dynamic webs.
Professor Stivers walks through a case study of a species endangered by a proposal to construct a dam that will flood its one remaining habitat. In doing so he illustrates how case studies may be used in congregations and other study groups to minister to the Earth.
Title: The Environmental Movement & the Church: Do We Share Common
Ground?
Catalog #: VEM 038 Production: VHS. Earth Ministry, 1995
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry's Spring Gathering, March 25, 1995.
Presenters: David Ortman: Director, Northwest Office, Friends of the Earth; Steve Whitney: Pacific Northwest Regional Director, The Wilderness Society.
Ortman and Whitney are both active churchmen as well as directors of prominent environmental organizations. They explore what each constituency has to offer the other in terms of history, world view, and tradition.
Title: Global Warming & Christianity: Is There a Connection?
Catalog #: VEM 086 Production: VHS. 2 tapes Earth Ministry,
November 14, 1997.
Format: Lecture/workshop Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry Lecture Series, November 17, 1997.
Dr. Sallie McFague, Carpenter Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, teaches and writes in the areas of feminist and ecological theology. Dr. McFague is a nationally-recognized leader in making connections between Christian faith/theology and care for all creation.
VEM 086-1: Part 1 of the workshop.
VEM 086-2: Part 2 of a workshop.
Title: Reflections on the Land Ethic
Catalog #: VEM 017 Production: VHS. 50 min. Earth Ministry,
1992.
Format: Lecture/presentation Audience: Adults
Earth Ministry Gathering, 1992.
Estella Leopold, University of Washington botany professor and daughter of Aldo Leopold (Sand County Almanac), shares her views of the land ethic, and how her learned and practiced it in Wisconsin and how well we're following it now in Washington State. Talk is 30 minutes, followed by discussion.
Title: Spirit & Nature, with Bill Moyers
Catalog #: VEM 077 Production: VHS. 100 min. Mystic Fire
Video. 1991.
Format: Documentary Audience: Adults
Bill Moyers features the spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama, Native American Elder Audrey Shenandoah, Protestant theologian Sallie McFague, professor of Jewish History Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, professor of Islamic Studies Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and professor of Social Ethics J. Ronald Engel. With music by the Paul Winter consort.
At Middlebury College in Vermont, representatives of major world religions join the community to wrestle with the challenge of the deepening global environmental crisis. They address the ethical and spiritual aspects of our ecological concerns by raising issues of responsibility for each other and for the species on the planet, our interrelationship with other parts of the cosmos, and the need to see nature as sacred.
"The great religions of the world are groping for a new ethic toward the environment, an ethic of stewardship rather than domination, an ethic of cooperation instead of conquest."- Bill Moyers