Exploring Lectio Terra
A Leadership Commons Open House
Wednesday, February 26 • 12.00 - 12.45pm (Eastern) • Online
This program is offered free of charge. Donations to support the work of The BTS Center will be received with gratitude.
In these times of climate turmoil and deep instability, the rich traditions and practices of our faiths can act as the ground in which we root — for wisdom, for connection, and for discernment.
Based on the ancient Christian practice of Lectio Divina, a deeply relational and contemplative process of reading a particular text, Lectio Terra invites us to engage with the natural world as a source of divine revelation and wisdom.
Ben Yosua-Davis, The BTS Center’s Director of Applied Research, has developed a set of guides for both engaging with and facilitating Lectio Terra. Ben will join us to discuss the practice, to introduce the guides, and to answer questions about how you might include Lectio Terra in your own spiritual life, both individual and collective.
Meet Our Presenter
Ben Yosua-Davis serves on The BTS Center staff team as Director of Applied Research, where he shapes the organization’s posture of “rigorous and reverent curiosity,” focused on research that supports and shares the wisdom of on-the-ground practitioners working in a climate-changed world. He is a graduate of Drew Theological Seminary and Colby College.
Previously, he lived in Haverhill, MA, where he co-planted a new church called The Vine, one of the earliest mainline missional church expressions in the country, and hosted a podcast entitled, “Reports From the Spiritual Frontier,” which chronicled the day-to-day lives of leaders innovating new forms of spiritual community.
Ben is a Maine native and now lives on Chebeague Island, Maine with his wife, Melissa, his son Michael, and his daughters, Genevieve and Emeline, where he directs the community chorus and delivers tins of cookies to unsuspecting neighbors.
