Earth Psalter
with Cassidhe Hart and Grant Showalter-Swanson
Friday, March 21, 2025
3-5pm Ireland
11am-1pm Eastern
8-10am Pacific
Program Description
How do we attend to feelings of overwhelm in the midst of climate change? What does it mean to love our homes well as we face environmental collapse? What are the gifts of contemplative liturgy that can sustain us?
As the prayer book of the Bible, the Book of Psalms moves through the breadth of human experience. Despair, hope, vengeance, gratitude, confusion, anger, joy—all these are included in the Psalms as ways of connecting with Divine presence. The Psalms are also deeply place-centered prayers: natural imagery and a connection to land are threads throughout. All these elements provide fertile ground for reimagining the psalms in the context of climate grief and the call to connect with Creation.
Earth Psalter is an opportunity to explore traditions of psalm composition, experience re-writing a psalm from the perspective of your ecosystem, and reflect together on how the practice of psalm writing might nourish us for the work of ecological justice.
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Your Guides for the Journey
Cassidhe Hart
Grant Showalter-Swanson
Grant Showalter-Swanson (he/him) is currently a Theology and New Testament PhD student and Recruitment Coordinator at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is an ordained Deacon in the United Methodist Church who serves at Urban Village Church. Raised in Omaha, NE, Grant holds a BA in English from North Central College, a MA in English from Middlebury College, and a Master of Divinity from Garrett. Between degrees, Grant taught sixth grade elementary on the Rosebud Reservation, spent a summer as a Yellowstone Park Ranger, and taught eighth grade Reading/Language Arts at the Chicago Jesuit Academy. Grant and his husband Connor live with their cat-daughter, Nessa, in Chicago, IL.
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