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The Lauriston Jesuit Centre |
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Finding God In All Things |
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On Holy Ground - The Environment Series |
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We have only one planet earth, and have to pass it on in good shape to the generations following us. But we don’t seem to be doing too well in this at the moment. The Environment Series at the Lauriston Jesuit Centre is our biggest undertaking to date, and hopes to look at a range of issues and topics to help us understand the problems and the solutions, the theology and the science, and to experience the natural world at first hand. A number of events are already planned and more will be added as they are confirmed. Download a PDF flyer for the series here. If you can help to display posters, let us know. |
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Tuesday 2nd December 2008
The series was opened by Alastair McIntosh, author and broadcaster, and his wife and Centre For Human Ecology colleague Vérène Nicolas, who considered the current environmental crisis for what it is at its root - a spiritual crisis, requiring a spiritual response. Click here to listen to their talk. |
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Monday 8th December 2008
Prof Aubrey Manning, scientist, discusses the current state of the world with Owen Dudley Edwards, historian, to consider a modern day response to the conflicting demands placed on the earth, its resources and its inhabitants. Click here for more details. |
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Prof Aubrey Manning & Owen Dudley Edwards - Life and the Earth: interlocking histories
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Tuesday 3rd February 2009
John Muir is Scotland’s greatest environmental pioneer, but he’s not well known in his native land. Dr David Anderson, Senior Museum Assistant at John Muir's Birthplace in Dunbar, tells us more about him, and what place religious faith had in his life. Muir wrote that ‘In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world’. Prophetic words from a prophetic Scot. Click here for more details. |
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Tuesday 27th January 2009
Dr Michael Northcott, Anglican priest and theologian, looks forward to a Papal Encyclical on ecology. What might it include? 40 years ago ‘Pacem in Terris’ changed the way the church looked at international development. Now the very earth itself requires the same treatment. Click here for more details. |
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February 2009
Dynamic Earth is Edinburgh’s Natural History Centre where the natural world is brought to life in spectacular detail. The Lauriston Jesuit Centre has organised a family friendly guided tour, at specially discounted rates. Date to be confirmed. Click here for more details. |
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Friday 13th March 2009
Sacred Heart Church hosts a night vigil of prayer on creation and ecology themes, to be led by Fr Chris Boles, Director of the Lauriston Jesuit Centre. Lent is the natural time to consider repentance and reconciliation, and we need to do this in our relationship with the earth just as much as with our neighbour. Three hours of prayer and reconciliation with scripture, music, film, sound, and John Muir! Click here for more details. |
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Tuesday 11th November 2008
This was the taster to an exciting line up of speakers and events. Al Gore’s Oscar winning film, warning about the need to act to save planet earth, our home and the dwelling place of God. Following the film there was a chance for refreshments and conversation on themes raised. Part of the Lauriston Jesuit Centre’s Social Justice Film Series. Click here for more details |
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Saturday 25th April 2009
It’s one thing to talk about God’s creation, but quite another to experience it! What better way than to have a guided nature walk in spring, round one of West Lothian’s finest country parks, Almondell and Calderwood. Our guide will be Senior Ranger Mary Konik. Families welcome, and booking is required. Click here for more details. |
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Very Early on a May Morning!
After experiencing a spring walk at Almondell, continue the experience with one of spring’s most amazing events, the dawn chorus. This will be an early morning gathering, with details to follow nearer the time. Click here for more. |
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Afternoon Seminar, Monday May 25th 2009
Mary Colwell is a regular presenter at the Lauriston Jesuit Centre, and the inspiration behind the whole environmental series taking place this year. She will spend an afternoon with anyone who is active in bringing environmental issues into the life and practice of their congregations. All Welcome. Click here for more details. |
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Monday May 25th 2009
Julian Hector is head of Radio at the Natural History Unit in Bristol, which has brought out some of the most amazing radio series on the natural world. In this lecture he will explore the connection between the natural world and the way the media present it and the problems it faces. Click here for more details. |
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Monday June 8th 2009
Sean McDonagh, priest and author, will be at Lauriston to consider what people of religious faith can do about the environmental crisis. We are people of faith, who believe in the resurrection - this gives hope. Click here for more details. |
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Tuesday June 9th 2009
Sean will spend the day with religious in Scotland, men and women, to consider what religious orders can contribute, and what we ourselves must do in community living to be more just to the earth. Click here for more details. |
