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SUMMARY:Finding Deep Hope in the Climate Crisis: Weaving a seatbelt of joy in a time of threat (2026 Summer Week 1 adult program)
DESCRIPTION:\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSummer at Sorrento Centre – Week 1, July 26 – August 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour summer week features an array of activities, including The Welcome BBQ, The “Finding Deep Hope in the Climate Crisis” program, Continental Breakfast, Day and Evening Activities, Worship and Music, Yoga, and Beach Access. Additionally, we will conclude the week on Friday with an afternoon Eucharist and a Farewell Dinner.\n\n\n\nCheck-in is available from 4:00 pm on Sunday, July 26, followed by the Welcome BBQ at 5:30 pm. The “Finding Deep Hope in the Climate Crisis” program runs weekdays from 9:45 am to 12:15 pm. Check-out time is 10:00 am on Saturday, August 1.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick here to check out the schedule for weeks 1, 2, and 3\n\n\n\nclick here to see all of the summer programs\n\n\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_512bcd-04 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_512bcd-04 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\nFinding Deep Hope in the Climate Crisis: Weaving a seatbelt of joy in a time of threat\n\n\n\nThe first Christians proclaimed, against common sense, against all the evidence, against the overwhelming might of the Roman Empire, that God had put everything right in Jesus’ death and resurrection. Even some of the disciples didn’t believe it. But that triumph is what our faith is about. Climate anxiety is our modern experience of the oppression of forces beyond our control. Can we regain the early Christians’ sense of joy and confidence in the face of our climate crisis? In this course, we will follow Christ to the cross and discover there the joy that drove Jesus’ followers around the world and can empower us to proclaim good news in face of the looming climate threat. Do we believe God can turn the climate crisis into joy? Believe it! Harold will present a way of accessing that joy as described in his book “Faith in Disaster” and participants will be invited to share with one another their own journey into deep, fulfilling life.\n\n\n\n“FAITH IN DISASTER — Finding Deep Hope in the Climate Crisis: How to Build a Seatbelt of Joy for Climate Collapse and Faith Collapse” is available commercially or through Harold at www.haroldmunnbooks.com.\n\n\n\nSpace is limited!\n\n\n\n\nRegister now\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_b9586b-f7 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_b9586b-f7 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHarold Munn was born in Victoria, B.C., and after graduating from the University of Victoria taught physics, biology and chemistry for three years to African high school students in Malawi, East Africa. He returned to Canada to study theology, not for ordination, but to find out how one could know if this loving God was real. It turned out one couldn’t, and Harold lost his faith, but in that disaster rediscovered how deeply he was loved. Harold was ordained an Anglican priest in the Yukon and served in mines and First Nations villages, and in Whitehorse, later in Edmonton and as Dean of All Saints’ Cathedral, and then as rector of a large downtown church in Victoria. In all his ministry he has been involved with First Nations, and with street, poverty and justice issues as well as with the arts. Harold has been active in movements such as Extinction Rebellion, pressing for societal change to avert climate collapse.\n\n\n\nSince childhood Harold has been intrigued with the issues which science raises for belief in God and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from a United Church college at the University of Alberta studying the world-views of non-believers, many of them professional scientists. He co-taught two courses on science and faith at the University of Alberta and is an associate of the international Society for Ordained Scientists founded by Arthur Peacocke, a biochemist who was also an Anglican priest and was a lecturer at both Oxford and Cambridge.\n\n\n\nIn 2024 Harold published “Faith in Doubt: how my dog made me an atheist and atheism made me a priest: An experiment in Faith” which proposes that one reason for declining church membership is the churches’ use of language which is no longer understood within our secular scientific culture. Examples from Harold’s personal life as well as a novel-like story of a budding romance between a believer and an atheist illustrate how churches could communicate the faith powerfully and effectively within the assumptions of our secular and scientific age. The sequel, “Faith in Disaster,” focusing on the climate crisis and faith, uses a similar format of true-life personal stories entwined with the ongoing romance in which the couple face failure in their relationship and in their concern about the climate, yet encounter unexpected resurrections. Faith in Disaster is available through www.haroldmunnbooks.com ( http://www.haroldmunnbooks.com ).\n\n\n\nNow living in Vancouver in retirement on the campus of UBC, Harold taught Anglican formation at the Vancouver School of Theology and has been interim priest in several Vancouver-area churches. He and his wife of fifty years have two adult sons, one a priest and one a fire-fighter paramedic, and four grandchildren whom he claims can be scientifically proven to be the most delightful grandkids in the whole world.\n\n\n\n.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_6fb38f-a7 .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-14446_6fb38f-a7 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:#eee;width:80%;border-top-style:solid;}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKindness 2026 – Learn more\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n.kb-gallery-id-14446_543052-bb .kadence-blocks-gallery-item .kb-gal-image-radius, .kb-gallery-id-14446_543052-bb .kb-slide-item .kb-gal-image-radius img{border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;;}.kb-gallery-wrap-id-14446_543052-bb .kb-gallery-ul.kb-gallery-type-mosaic .grid-pattern-container{grid-auto-rows:150px;grid-gap:10px;gap:10px;}
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