Turtle Island Project: Respect for Indigenous Peoples, Environment

r. George Cairns believe that Christians could learn a lot about nature and the environment by listening to Earth-based cultures like Native Americans, Celts, and other Indigenous peoples.

Rev. Hubbard is a Lutheran pastor, and Rev. Cairns is an ordained United Church of Christ minister.

Both have extensive backgrounds in interfaith and multicultural work.

The Turtle Island Project (TIP), based in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, promotes respect for the environment and Native Americans.

Two Midwest pastors created the TIP to foster a national discussion and debate on a wide variety of issues involving the future of the planet and mankind including encouraging Christians to learn how to appreciate nature like Earth-based religions such as American Indians, Celts and other Indigenous peoples.

Turtle Island Project volunteer media advisor Greg Peterson has more on the founders and their goals.

Video #14 Turtle Island Project

Time: 9:50

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White Buffalo Calf Woman Society:

http://www.wbcws.org

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Turtle Island Project related websites:

Turtle Island Project main website:

http://www.turtleislandproject.org

Turtle Island TV (blipTV)

http://turtleislandtv.blip.tv/

Turtle Island TV (youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/MunisingWhiteHorse

Turtle Island (myspace)

http://www.myspace.com/TurtleIslandProject

Turtle Island Project websites/Blogs:

http://groups.msn.com/WhisperingTurtle

http://turtleislandproject.wordpress.com/

email:

TurtleIslandProject@charter.net

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Rate of Species Extinction:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rate+of+species+extinction&btnG=Google+Search

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/01/31_olsond_biodiversity/

http://www.iucn.org/themes/Ssc/red_list_2004/Extinction_media_brief_2004.pdf

http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2001_2005/press/species2000.html

http://www.earthportals.com/extinct.html

http://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Information/Species_Extinction/

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Inconvenient Truth - Al Gore:

http://www.climatecrisis.net/

http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthefilm/

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/060524-global-warming.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inconvenient_Truth

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/

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Existentialist Theology of Paul Tillich:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism

http://www.giffordlectures.org/Author.asp?AuthorID=169

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Kairos

An artistic representation of Kairos by Francesco Salviati:

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Image:Francesco_Salviati_005.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich

http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_content?page=590630&sp=1018&event=1018

Paul Tillich’s gravestone in the Paul Tillich Park, New Harmony, Indiana:

(Tillich died in Chicago in 1965. A park was named after him in New Harmony, Indiana, where his ashes were interred.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Paul_Johannes_Tillich%27s_gravestone_in_the_Paul_Tillich_Park%2C_New_Harmony%2C_Indiana.jpg

http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/tabid/68/id/9706/Default.aspx

http://www.quodlibet.net/stephens-luther.shtml

Rosebud Tribe official website:

http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/

1973 Wounded Knee Incident & the earlier 1890 massacre of 146 Indians by government troops:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident

http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Incident

Pine Ridge Reservation Info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Reservation

Pine Ridge shocking photos:

http://www.aaronhuey.com/

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Links to groups/organizations in video/bios (see bios below) of the founders of the Turtle Island Project:

"The Community of Religions" - a book by Rev. George Cairns and Wayne Teasdale:

http://www.amazon.com/Community-Religions-Voices-Images-Parliament/dp/0826408990

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/002-2408734-6876016?initialSearch=1&url=node%3D1000%2C22&field-keywords=george+cairns++teasdale&x=12&y=15

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0826408990/ref=dp_image_text_0/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

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Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church Munising, MI - Rev. Lynn Hubbard:

http://edenonthebay.org/HomePage_1.html

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Turtle Island Project founder bios:

Rev. Dr. Lynn Hubbard, M.Div., D.Min.

Rev. Hubbard is founder/director of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI

He is the pastor at Eden on the Bay Lutheran Church in Munising

In addition to graduating from Valparaiso University and holding advanced degrees from the Lutheran School of Theology and Chicago Theological Seminary, Lynn has studied at the Pedagogische Hochschule Reutlingen, Germany, the Religious Studies Department at the University of Indiana, and the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. For many years he worked as the Associate Dean of Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago.

He has served a number of churches throughout the Chicago area, and lived on the island of St. Croix, in the Virgin Islands, pastoring two Afro-Caribbean Lutheran congregations. He has had extensive experience in both the inter faith and ecumenical communities, and served as the Director of Development for the Parliament of World's Religious.

Most recently, in working in his capacity as spiritual director for Juvenile sex offenders, he has given national and international conference presentations on "Creating Ritual Process for Juvenile Sex Offenders from a Cross Cultural Perspective".

He is currently the minister of Eden on the Bay, Lutheran Church in Munising Michigan. He travels regularly to the Lakota Sioux reservations in South Dakota, where he helps prepare graduate theological students in cross-cultural ministerial training. He has been honored by members of the Sicangu tribe of the Lakota people in being asked to serve as a fire keeper for their Sundance ceremonies.

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George F. Cairns, M.Div., Ph.D.

Rev. Cairns is chairman of the board of the Turtle Island Project in Munising, MI

George is a semi-retired minister, professor of practical and spiritual theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, and is a clinical psychologist. George helped found the Parliament of the World's religions and with Wayne Teasdale wrote/edited a book about this process.

His current work concerns Celtic spirituality, centering prayer, and their integration into a theology of practical action for healing, justice, and peace.

He has practiced and taught Centering Prayer since 1986. He has taught centering prayer in several unusual settings including a Native American cultural center and a maximum security prison. He has published papers on this work.

George and his wife Nancy have taught an early and little known Christian practice known as "jubilation." This form of sung praise produces a whole chord of sound by an individual. When practiced in community, sounds appear which no one is making.

He is a former member of the Forge Guild, an international group which encourages spiritual teachers from different religious traditions to explore one another's practices and Spiritual Directors International. He and Nancy are associates/members of two covenantal Christian communities: The Iona Community based in Scotland, and; the Shalom Community based in Chicago.

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The Iona Community - Worldwide:

http://www.iona-nwf.org/

http://www.iona.org.uk/abbey/main.htm

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Spiritual Directors International:

http://www.sdiworld.org/home.html

http://www.sdiworld.org/logo2.html

http://www.sdiworld.org/our_story.html

http://www.sdiworld.org/coordinating_council.html

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Parliament of the World's Religions:

http://www.cpwr.org/

http://www.cpwr.org/how/how.htm

http://www.cpwr.org/what/what.htm

http://www.cpwr.org/who/history.htm

http://www.cpwr.org/who/who.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Parliament_of_Religions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_of_the_World%27s_Religions

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Chicago Theological Seminary:

http://www.ctschicago.edu/

http://www.ctschicago.edu/150th/events.php

http://www.ctschicago.edu/general/alumresources/index.php

http://www.ctschicago.edu/general/life/index.php

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University of Chicago - Rockefeller Chapel:

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/Architecture/architecture.html

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/history.html

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/specialevents.html

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/religion.html

http://rockefeller.uchicago.edu/

http://divinity.uchicago.edu/

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Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago:

http://www.lstc.edu/

http://lutheran.uchicago.edu/

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Valpraiso University:

http://www.valpo.edu/

http://www.valpo.edu/christc/

http://www.valpo.edu/lutheranlook/

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University of Indiana:

http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/index.shtml

http://www.indiana.edu/~relstud/about/

http://www.indiana.edu/~iuvis/

http://www.indiana.edu/~iuvis/see.shtml

http://www.iub.edu/~iubmap/mapredirect.pl?select=BL149&Go=Go%21

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Lutheran/Church sites in St. Croix, Virgin Islands:

List of St. Croix Churches:

http://www.usvi.net/usvi/stcroix/attractions/churches.php

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ELCA Carribean Synod:

http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/

http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=1

http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?name=My_eGallery

http://www.caribbeansynod-elca.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=13

ELCA St. Croix Churches:

(Christus Victor Lutheran Church, Kingshill Lutheran Church, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church)

http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsSearch.asp?state=VI

http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA991

http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA993

http://www.elca.org/ScriptLib/OS/Congregations/cdsDetail.asp?Id=A59D9DA994

Lord God of Sabaoth Lutheran Church - St. Croix, Virgin Islands:

http://www.lgosalive.com/

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St. Croix Tourism site:

http://www.stcroixtourism.com/st_croix_pictures.htm

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Lakota Rosebud Sioux Reservation - official website of Sicangu Lakota Tribe:

http://www.rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/

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Lakota Newspaper:

http://lakotacountrytimes.com/

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Catholic Theological Union - Claude Marie Barbour:

http://www.ctu.edu/Our_Faculty/Biographies/Claude_Marie_Barbour.html

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Other Books in video:

http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Heart-Discovering-Universal-Spirituality/dp/157731140X/ref=sr_1_2/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189372885&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Heart-Discovering-Universal-Spirituality/dp/157731140X/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/002-2408734-6876016

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826413978/ref=cap_pdp_dp_0/002-2408734-6876016

http://www.amazon.com/Encountering-Religious-Pluralism-Challenge-Christian/dp/083081552X/ref=sr_1_4/002-2408734-6876016?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189372885&sr=1-4

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