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Studies of religion ignore new upstart: ecospiritualism

(01/21/97 5:00am)

Last semester I was fortunate to have attended a lecture at York Chapel in the Divinity School entitled "Religious Origins of the Environmental Crisis" by historian Thomas Berry. He is one of the leading ecospiritual writers of our time, and the lecture also would have been appropriate to have been given at the Nicholas School of the Environment. It is ironic, however, that at the foremost institution for interdisciplinary environmental research in the country there are no formal faculty affiliations with the Divinity School or the Department of Religion. I would like to suggest that this omission is a serious oversight and offer the following evidence in support of the development of such a relationship.



Harms, Fox ask important questions

(04/05/96 5:00am)

Tim Harms (Mar. 22) echoed past senior students on the editorial pages from previous spring semesters in his lament of the "senior dilemma." Is the question "Who cares where we go from here?" an appropriate response to the climax of four years at one of our most esteemed centers of higher learning? Or is something missing in our approach to education? Fortunately this issue was raised just prior to the Thursday, Mar. 28 lecture by Matthew Fox entitled "Integrating Spirituality and Work: Transforming our Livelihood." In his book, "The Reinvention of Work," Fox makes the following comments: