'A Sacramental Approach to Ecology' Conference to be held in BC

With the permission of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Monastery of All Saints of North America has organised an ecumenical conference on ecology in his honour.

The Conference is titled A Sacramental Approach to Ecology. It is sponsored by the monastery, and co-hosted by Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. Moderator will be Steven Bynum, executive producer of National Public Radio’s Worldview. Speakers from a spectrum of the Christian churches will present.

The first session of the conference will be a symposium style roundtable at the monastery, followed by a full day conference at Trinity Western University on the following day.

The schedule is:

Friday, October 6th, 6:30pm: Roundtable Symposium “The Christian Obligation to the Environment. (At the Monastery of All Saints of North America, Dewdney, BC)

Saturday, October 7th, 10am-4pm: Full Conference, at Trinity Western University, Langley, BC.

For more details and directions to the venues, please telephone Archbishop Lazar at (604) 556-8517. See the monastery website for map and detailed directions to both locations.