Becoming Good Ancestors: Building an Island of Sanity in a World Falling Apart is on Saturday, May 24, 2025, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm. It is at Shoreline Unitarian Universalist Church, 14724 1st Ave NE, Shoreline, Washington. This is a workshop devoted to how we may respond to crises that threaten human and ecological life on our precious planet.
Participants need to have read Brian McLaren’s book, Life After Doom.
Register by emailing the number of participants to tnewell@redeemer-kenmore.org.
There will be no charge for this event (donations will be accepted). Lunch will be brown bag or local cafés.
Co-sponsored by Sowing Clover, Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Kenmore, and Shoreline Unitarian.
How are you going to respond to ecological and societal collapse? Decide for yourself by coming to Becoming Good Ancestors.
Life After Doom
For the last quarter-century, author and activist Brian D. McLaren has been writing at the intersection of religious faith and contemporary culture. In Life After Doom, he engages with the catastrophic failure of both our religious and political leaders to address the dominant realities of our time:
- Ecological overshoot
- Economic injustice
- The increasing likelihood of civilizational collapse
McLaren defines doom as the “un-peaceful, uneasy, unwanted feeling” that “we humans have made a mess of our civilization and our planet, and not enough of us seem to care enough to change deeply enough or quickly enough to save ourselves.”
Church of the Redeemer
Church of the Redeemer: Worshiping God, living in community, and reaching out to the world around us. We are an Episcopal Church serving north King County and south Snohomish County, Washington. As you travel your road, go with friends walking the way of Jesus at Redeemer.
Church of the Redeemer is at 6220 Northeast 181st Street in Kenmore, Washington. The campus is a short distance north of Bothell Way, near the Burke-Gilman Trail. The entrance looks like a gravel driveway. The campus is larger on the inside than it is on the outside. And we managed to hide a large building on the side of a hill that is not easily seen from the street.
The Episcopal Church welcomes you.