"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I an artist, will answer you: 'I am here to live out loud'."
- Emile Zola

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Sarah McFarland Taylor: Religion and Ecology
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Sarah McFarland Taylor, associate professor, specializes in the study of religion and American culture, gender studies in religion, and religion and ecology. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Brown University, a Master's degree from Dartmouth College, and earned her doctorate in Religion and American Culture (with additional Ph.D. emphasis in Women's Studies) from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Her first book, Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology (Harvard University Press, April 2007), documents the growing movement of environmentally activist Roman Catholic religious sisters in North America. Taylor has published journal articles on various topics related to the "greening" of American religion – from eco-erotic imagery in the work of Mormon naturalist Terry Tempest Williams to original research conducted on Eco-Churches, animal blessings, the "Gaian Mass."

Taylor's second book project, Eternally Green: The Ecological American Way of Death, deals with the religious dimensions of the Green Burial Movement. She is also in the midst of research for a third book, Eco-Prophecy: Religious Responses to Global Climate Crisis, in which she examines the emergence of prayers, meditations, and rituals specifically directed toward climate crisis and its impact on life communities both now and in the future. Taylor explores the prophetic nature of these spiritual responses for what they might reveal about contemporary religious understandings of environmental concerns and interactions between religious communities and the culture of American environmentalism, while analyzing the ways that such prayerwork and ritual performances do or do not get coupled with direct political action.

PAST EVENTS:

Author & Illustrator Rick Bass
Saturday, May 3

Anti-War Speaker Dahlia Wasfi Talks About the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
A Celebration of International Women's Week In Conjunction with the San Miguel Resource Center
March 1, 2008

Immigration and the U.S. Mexico Border with Ray Ybarra
January 17, 2008

The Many Facets of the Immune System and How to Strengthen Them with Lynn Mayer
January 8, 2008

Be Happy Like A Monk, Professor Richard Davidson
March 29, 2007

Chicago: From Concept to Performance with Director, Shawn Rozsa
March 15, 2007

The Hard Cold Truth about Global Warming — In conjunction with Sheep Mountain Alliance
March 14, 2007

Workshop: The Art of Self Care — In conjunction with Phenomenal Women’s Week and the San Miguel Resource Center
March 10, 2007

Lecture: The Art of Self-Care — In conjunction with Phenomenal Women’s Week and the San Miguel Resource Center
March 8, 2007

The Politics Of Water In The High Desert with George Sibley — A celebration of Water and the Last Night of Ah Haa’s H2O Show
February 23, 2007

Aging: Hormones and Health with McLean Cherry — in conjunction with Women's Ski week
February 13, 2007

The Lakota Medicine Wheel: Ancient Knowledge for Healing the Mind, Body, Spirit and Heart
September 29, 2006

Tom Noel, Colorado—A Liquid History and Tavern Guide with Barstool Reflections on the Silvery San Juan
June 1, 2006

A Conversation with Trio Solisti
June 27, 2006

James B. Nicola on Shakespeare (In collaboration with the Telluride Repertory Theatre)
August 8, 2006

Dinosaurs in Our Backyard with speaker Dan Chure
December, 2005

The Pause in Pinter with speaker Robin McKee
February 21, 2006

"Eating Well" with Gabriel Howearth
September 13, 2005

3rd Annual Beaming Bioneers Conference
October 14-16, 2005

Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec
June 27, 2005

Beaming Bioneers
October 15, 16 & 17, 2004

Zen master Eido Roshi
November 13 - 14, 2004

Laurie Lundquist "Making Art for Public Places"
June 10 & 12, 2004

Sam Hamill "When Poetry Meets Politics"
June 27 - 28, 2004

Amy Goodman "Democracy Now!"
Summer 2004

Medea Benjamin
March 10, 2004

Dan Budnik
Jan. 15, 2004

Dan Collins
Jan. 2, 2004

Beaming Bioneers
2003

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