Multifaith Network for Climate Justice: Creating Community While Raising Our Voices on Behalf of All of Creation

Deb Cruz is a member of the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship and President of JUUstice Washington, a Unitarian Universalist (UU) state action network.  Deb currently works with local, state, regional, national and international organizations and efforts, faith-based and secular, on environmental justice issues, especially those impacting Indigenous communities.  Well-versed in understanding the intersection between social and environmental justice issues, Deb works diligently to approach understanding and problem-solving from a more wholistic perspective, one that includes the material, legal, legislative, economic, scientific, cultural, psychosocial and the spiritual.  She firmly believes the faith and spiritual-based perspectives have a critical role in healing and restoring the Earth and these perspectives need to be brought to the forefront in establishing a culture of respect and accountability toward the Web of Life.

Ethan Teed has a deeply grounded spirituality rooted in creation and the sacramental nature of our world. He is a Guide for the Seminary of the Wild Earth program through The Center for Wild Spirituality. He completed an EcoSpirituality Leaders program through the BTS Center which included training in ‘forest bathing/nature therapy.’ In addition, he’s trained in facilitating “The Work That Reconnects Spiral” and conducting ritual and ceremony through Joanna Macy’s “The Work That Reconnects” organization. He is also the co-founder and co-facilitator of the Universal Sailing Men’s Group, exploring the journey towards embodying the mature, healthy, divine masculine. Ethan is an engaged member of the Stillpoint at Beckside spiritual community, where he also facilitates events. He and his wife, Karyn, recently began facilitating a variety of spiritual offerings on the land they are blessed to tend, Anam Cara Fields.