"Our Ancestors and Earth” - Rev. Kelly Dignan, Co-Director UU Ministry for Earth

Rev. Kelly Dignan will help us begin to investigate our family stories and our ancestors’ connection with Earth. Our UUA President, Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt says this: “It is to inherited environmental practices themselves that ecowomanism* [and we] must turn for rehumanizing ways of knowing in relation to Earth.” 

Rev. Kelly Dignan is the Co-director of UU Ministry for Earth. She focuses on programs and loves helping UUs deepen their practices of Earth care, justice and flourishing of life. She also offers spiritual direction to individuals and teaches UU History at Iliff School of Theology, her alma mater.  Kelly lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and near her four children. 

*Ecowomanism, which Melanie L. Harris defines, is an approach to environmental justice that centers the perspectives of women of African descent and reflects upon these women's activist methods, religious practices, and theories on how to engage earth justice. As a part of the womanist tradition, methodologically ecowomanism features race, class, gender intersectional analysis to examine environmental injustice around the planet. Thus, it builds upon an environmental justice paradigm that also links social justice to environmental justice. Our UUA President, Rev. Dr. Sofia Betancourt is an ecowomanist ethicist. So we will be including some of her work, too! 

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Meeting ID:  275 194 110

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Special Collection: UU Ministry for Earth