![]() ![]() Cherryh, to the diversity of women’s experiences explored by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Ursula K. From the separatist female utopias envisioned by Joanna Russ, to the critiques of patriarchal technocentrism found in Lisa Tuttle and C. The 1970s marked a turning point in science fiction written by women: the decade’s resurgence of feminist politics and receptiveness to literary experimentation inspired paradigm-shifting works that still retain their revolutionary power. Video clips from the 2013 Bartimaeus InstituteĬoming into the Watershed: Permaculture, Ecoliteracy and Bioregional Discipleship.Ī map of the Ventura River Watershed in southern California, where Bartimaeus Cooperative Ministries is located.Lisa Yaszek on “the watershed moment” of 1970s feminist science fiction The Future Is Female! More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women Articles by Ched Myers: “ A Watershed Moment” ( Sojourners), or “ From ‘Creation Care’ to ‘Watershed Discipleship’: Re-Placing Ecological Theology and Practice“ ( Conrad Grebel Review).Read the 2016 anthology, Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice, details here.First explanation of watershed discipleship: A Reflection on Isaiah 5, Ecological Solipsism, and “Watershed Discipleship,” Ched Myers, 2010.You can also join our “Coming into the Watershed” Facebook group for lively discussion and resource sharing. Please read our “ Call for a Watershed Discipleship Alliance.” If you are interested in joining us, contact us. ![]() We think a good vehicle for the tasks of education, advocacy and organizing required to learn, love and save real places could be a “watershed discipleship alliance.” This website is an initiation of that project. This is both a warning and a promise that we believe sums up our vocation as church in the present crisis. This requires literacy to paraphrase Baba Dioum, a Senegales environmentalist:Īnd we don’t know places we haven’t learned. To be faithful disciples in a watershed at this watershed historical moment, as Todd Wynward reminds us, we need to become disciples of our watersheds, which have everything to teach us about interrelatedness and resiliency. Because this orientation is still foreign to our Christian communities, our task is to nurture watershed consciousness and engagement in our faith traditions.ģ. We are thus persuaded that the best way to orient the church’s work and witness is through bioregionally-grounded planning and action which focuses on the actual watersheds (defined here) we inhabit. The question that must be addressed is not how to care for the planet, but how to care for each of the planet’s millions of human and natural neighborhoods, each of its millions of small pieces and parcels of land, each one of which is in some precious way different from all the others. Wendell Berry rightly points out that “global thinking” is often merely a euphemism for abstract anxieties or passions that are useless for engaged efforts to save actual landscapes. We cannot stand against the prevailing industrial system of robbery (of the poor and of the earth) if we have no place to stand. Churchly theologies of “creation care” have gained remarkable traction among a wide and ecumenical spectrum of North American churches over the last two decades - yet they are still often too abstract and/or unfocused. It is time to embrace the vocation envisioned by the Apostle Paul: the “children of God” must take a stand of passionate solidarity with a Creation that is enslaved to our dysfunctional and toxic civilizational lifeways, and commit ourselves to the liberation to the earth and all its inhabitants (Rom 8:20f).Ģ. This requires us to embrace deep paradigm shifts and broad practical changes of habit in our homes, churches, and denominations. The ecological endgame that stalks our history puts humanity in a watershed moment that demands serious, sustained engagement from Christians we must choose between denial and discipleship.īoth our love for the Creator and the interlocking crises of global warming, peak “everything,” and widening ecological degradation should compel us to make environmental justice and sustainability integral to everything we do as disciples -and as citizen inhabitants of specific places. ![]()
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