Welcome to this special
recording for COP26 and beyond, where we consider the power of drama, parable
and liturgy to immerse us bodily in current reality, and give us vision for a
way forward.
I am Harriet Harris,
theologian and Chaplain at the University of Edinburgh, and I am joined by Prof
Anthony Reddie, a participatory black liberation theologian, and author of many
books including Theologising Brexit and Is God Colour-Blind? And
Claire Henderson-Davis a dancer, choreographer, theologian and public
liturgist. Her film All Creation Waits, on tour throughout COP26,
imagines a modern day St Francis and St Clare confronting the health of the
earth.
Claire holds that a good
liturgy abandons us in the story and offers us a vision for how we might go
forward. In this podcast conversation, we feel ourselves wading in the climate
crisis, and we ask how we become actors in a drama of healing.