Ebor Lecture: Earth-Hope with Professor Rupert Read

Free hybrid Ebor Lecture Earth- Hope: Through the coming climate chaos we will find common cause in a spiritual orientation to our planetary home (5pm -6pm) with drinks reception (6pm-7pm). Hosted by the Centre for Religion in Society at York St John University and jointly sponsored by York Minster, The Methodist Church (Yorkshire North and East District), The C. & J. B. Morrell Trust and the York Area Society of Friends (Quakers).

About the Centre for Religion in Society

The Centre for Religion in Society (CRiS) at York St John University provides a forum where scholars and practitioners can come together to examine the role of religion in the cultural, social and political life of society.

About the Ebor Lectures

The Ebor Lectures in Theology and Public Life were established in 2006 in York, UK, to promote conversation across a diversity of religious beliefs and issues of public concern.

Rupert Read is Co-Director of the Climate Majority Project and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia.
He is the author of several books, including This Civilisation is Finished, Parents for a Future, Why Climate Breakdown Matters and Do you want to know the truth? The surprising rewards of climate honesty.

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