From the Center - Religious Engagement for a New Generation

I’m Michael Reid Trice, Director at the Center for Ecumenical and Interreligious Engagement at Seattle University.  The Center is pursuing an initiative titled Public Theology for a New Generation.  This is possible through the generous support of principal funders, beginning with the Henry Luce Foundation, and including the Alfred & Tillie Shemanski Testamentary Trust, which supports our Interreligious Initiative at the Center.

The Center is developing new modalities for public theological engagement for classroom and community.  With Center scholars, podcast interviews, community resources, and more, we are tailoring our work to this tech-savvy generation by creating new multi-media content to assist the learner in meaningful and clear ways.

In this way, the Center is pleased to provide a guide to a user-friendly online multi-media resource we have created to accompany the new international text developed by colleagues at the Parliament of the World’s Religions Climate Action Task Force with the help of the United Nations Environmental Program Faith-for-Earth Initiative.  As part of the Center’s commitment to resourcing a new generation for public theological engagement, in the guide you’ll see the Center highlighting the voices of individuals from religions around the world on the care for our common home. 

The Center is providing this guide because we believe that lifting the endeavors of allies in a resilient response to our changing climate, is an essential effort within the spirit of “religious multilateralism,” in which agencies must collaborate in opportunities to engage the public in ways that excite the imagination for what is possible, even as we are awakened to the sobering aspects of the world around us.

Learn more about our partners in their links within this resource.  Walk through and engage the voices and perspectives you find there.  And, to find out more about the Center, our Team, and our current projects, visit us at www.seattleu.edu/thecenter Links to an external site.