Tuesdays, October 6-November 10, 2026  7:30-8:30 PM CST via Zoom. EcoSpirituality asks how to attend to the Holy within our ecosystems, our homes. Amidst escalating climate catastrophe, encountering Wisdom across the historic breadth of Christian spirituality helps us learn within place and (en)counter the grief of our damage to what the Creator called “good.” We will weekly encounter other spiritual traditions as they offer Wisdom to enrich ecospiritual connections while nesting our learning in our own environments.

We’ll try on ideas about the Divine (as God/ess, Spirit, Greenness), about humans (as images of God, as kin to other creatures, as theological mammals), about “sin” (as a useful concept? an abusive one? As rupture or identity?) and about spiritual practices that most responsibly and wondrously welcome us into the full communion within our own ecosystems.

About the Instructor: Trish Zimmerman, PhD

Trish Zimmerman teaches in Religion and the Great Conversation Program at St Olaf College. She has an MA and PhD from the University of Chicago, Divinity School, a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College, including work at the University of Heidelberg.  Her research and teaching focus on the history of Christianity with emphasis on diversities of Christian thought and practice, feminist theology, and comparative mysticism. She trains lawyers in religious literacy on the side, has been a Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogues fellow, edits an international series on mysticism, serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion History of Christianity unit, advises Posse scholars, mentors grade schoolers, and generally meddles in all kinds of interesting applications of thinking deeply and wrestling with what is religion and who benefits by our answers to that question. Preaching and teaching in many religious communities, she is an advocate for the public understanding, debate, discussion and appreciation of religion and spirituality in their abundant varieties. She lives in Northfield, MN with her three teenage boys, two beloved retrievers, cat described by the shelter as an "aggressive snuggler" and ever-increasing trees and other fauna.  Covid was for planting around here.  She's an avid lover of the outdoors, especially the northwoods and prairie and has miraculously trained her impatient self to practice ana spirituality of attention on daily meditative walks on the prairie.  Her current writing project is a Mysticism of Place, Prairie Notes. Minnesota and Wisconsin Conference members can use the code MNWI in checkout to save 15% on your order!