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WCCM EARTH CRISIS FORUM: "BEARING WITNESS”
Live Via ZOOM/July 12th, 2025
“WE ARE JUST ONE MEMBER OF A GREAT COMMUNITY OF LIVING BEINGS.”
– Aldo Leopold, American Conservationist
Please join Father Laurence Freeman and moderator Kaveh Guilanpour for the WCCM’s next Earth Crisis Forum where a panel of writers, artists, climate experts and journalists will be putting a contemplative lens on the issue of climate change by exploring the ways in which we pay attention to the world.
“ABSOLUTE, UNMIXED ATTENTION IS THE PUREST FORM OF PRAYER.”
– Simone Weil, French Writer and Philosopher
Every single species pays attention to the world in ways that not only ensure the survival of its species, but the survival of the entire planet. In other words, every species – including humans – bears witness to the world in its own unique way, constantly attuned and paying attention to aspects of its environment that are most material to its survival and, by extension, to the survival of the entire planet as well. It is a vast communal effort of paying attention.
And if each species plays its own part in the survival of the whole, might we then ask: What about us? What part do humans play in this immense ecosystem we call a planet? How are we meant to pay attention and bear witness to the world? What does it mean to be human, and to be human right now – when our planet is at such a dangerous tipping point?
“I’M SO GRATEFUL TO BE ALIVE AT A TIME WHEN THERE IS SO MUCH WORTH SAVING.”
– Ethan Tapper, American Forester, Author
Please join us as we explore these questions and try to understand how our ways of paying attention to the world have contributed to the climate crisis and in what ways might we pay better attention to what is happening both to us and around us – so that we might remember that our uniquely human way of paying attention is one of our most beautiful gifts to the world.
Watch your email for more information and the link to join this world event!
Image courtesy of David Christopher Barry
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