Catholic Lecture Feb. 4 spotlights Mary Evelyn Tucker

Mary Evelyn Tucker, theologian and environmentalist

Fort Worth, TX

1/20/2009

Dr. Mary Evelyn Tucker, a theologian and environmentalist, will be guest speaker at Brite Divinity School’s Fourth Roman Catholic Lecture Feb. 4 at 7 p.m. in Ed Landreth Auditorium on the TCU campus. Topic is “The Way Back Home.” General admission is $15, or $35 for reserved seating/priority parking. For tickets, go to www.brite.tcu.edu or phone ext. 7575.

Tucker, a lecturer and research scholar at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in the Religious Studies Department at Yale University, is co-founder and co-director of the national Forum on Religion and Ecology.

Together with John Grim, they organized a series of 10 conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the 10 volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press.

Where environmental issues were once considered to be the concern of scientists, lawyers and policy makers, wrote Tucker and Grim, “Now the ethical dimensions of the environmental crisis are becoming more evident … Can religious and cultural perspectives be considered in creating viable solutions to environmental challenges?” Tucker is the author of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase.