Spirituality, Environmental Issues, and ICSD’s Mission

Rabbi Yonatan Neril speaks on the role that spirituality can play in solving global environmental issues, and on the mission of the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development. If you are interested in hearing more commentary from Yonatan Neril on global ecological circumstances, check out our video on his speech at the Interfaith Climate and Energy Conference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgFGnciSeoU&t=190s

Rabbi Yonatan Neril, Founder & Executive Director, The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development voices a call to action to religious communities for environmental sustainability, and to understand how nature relates to spirituality. In March 2017, 70 seminary faculty and deans participated in a Symposium on Ecologically Informed Theological Education in Washington, DC. They explored ways of integrating faith and ecology into their theology curricula. The Symposium was co-organized by the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development, the Washington Theological Consortium, the Green Seminary Initiative (GSI), and Methodist Theological School in Ohio (MTSO), and hosted by The Catholic University of America‘s School of Theology and Religious Studies.

The video was recorded at the Washington D.C. Symposium which was part of The Seminary Environmental Leadership Initiative. The Symposium was funded through a grant from the Luce Fund for Theological Education, an initiative of the Henry Luce Foundation’s Theology Program. Additional support was provided by The Julia Burke Foundation.