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2nd Annual Father Francis Kline Memorial Lectures held at Mepkin Abbey

Regional Cultures of Conservation,

April 24th, 2009

CHN, along with Mepkin Abbey, the Penn Center and the Gullah Heritage Institute sponsored the second series of Father Francis Kline Memorial Lectures at Mepkin Abbey. The first day of presentations and discussions, entitled “Ecumenical Views on the Environment,” brought together a group of approximately 30 people for discussions of our shared ethical responsibility toward the earth and our dependence upon the environment. The speakers were drawn from Roman Catholic, Jewish, Buddhist, and evangelical Christian traditions. The second day’s events, presented under the title “Reflections of the Gullah Community: Work, the Environment, and Spirituality,” engaged the relationship of the Gullah people to the environment. Speakers from the Gullah Community spoke of the importance of the natural world to the Gullah people and their dependence upon it for both inspiration and their livelihood. Approximately one hundred people attended this event that included demonstrations by a Gullah basket maker, storyteller, and net maker. Click here to download a summary of the day’s presentations.

Before his death in 2008, Dr. Strachan Donnelley, Founding President of CHN established the Father Francis Kline Memorial Lecture Series as a means of honoring the life and work of the late Abbot of Mepkin, the first series taking place at Mepkin Abbey, near Moncks Corner, South Carolina in April 2008, only a short time before Dr. Donnelley’s death later that year.

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