ECO Core Intensive: Educating to “Create Just and Sustainable Communities that Counter Oppressions”

Educating to “Create Just and Sustainable Communities that Counter Oppressions” (“ECO” for short) is a core goal of Starr King’s M.Div. and M.A.S.C. degree programs. In this required core intensive, M.Div. and M.A.S.C. students work in joint sessions and in specialized sessions oriented to their specific degree program, to form a framework for counter-oppressive religious leadership. We will ask, how can spirituality, ministry, and religious activism respond to the multiple and intersecting realities of injustice, suffering, and oppression in our lives and our world? What models of justice and sustainable community invite our commitment? Drawing on Unitarian Universalist and multi-religious sources, we will explore how in the midst of a world marked by tragedy, sorrow and injustice there remain abiding resources of beauty and grace that nourish resistance, offer healing and call us to accountability and community building. Reading assignments to be completed before the course. The reading list will be distributed to students by June 15.
Syllabus RSFT 4017 (pdf)