Three Reasons to Take ECO

What is ECO?

At Starr King, ECO stands for Educating to Counter Oppressions and Create Just and Sustainable Communities.

As a theological school educating in a world blessed with resources of beauty, grace, resistance, and transformation and marked by intersecting forms of violence and injustice, we have made ECO a priority for over 25 years. In our work we strive to embody what we hope to see in the world — a just, loving humanity and community in which people are free to be themselves fully and without fear; a community where no one is exiled, silenced or exploited because of gender, gender expression, race, color, ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual/affectional orientation, age, class, physical character or disability.

Read more about our commitment to Educating to Counter Oppressions and Create Just and Sustainable Communities.

What is the ECO Core Course?

Offered each Spring and Fall, the ECO Core course helps students form a framework for counter-oppressive spiritual leadership by asking: 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, students in ECO 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. Read more.

Three Reasons to Take ECO

1. It’s a Fantastic Introduction to Starr King

2. It’s a Pre-Requisite for Many Courses

3. It’s One of the Few Required Courses