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RWE Mission StatementReligious Witness for the Earth (RWE) is a national, independent, interfaith network dedicated to creating a society in which human beings live in loving, just relationships with one another and with all Creation.In fulfilling our mission, we are committed to being:
RWE Leadership Council
Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian The Rev. Dr. Andrea Ayvazian is the Senior Minister of the Haydenville Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, in Haydenville, MA. The former Dean of Religious Life at Mount Holyoke College, Rev. Ayvazian has been active in movements for social justice, peace and environmental sustainability since the 1970s. The author of numerous articles, book chapters, and educational materials, Rev. Ayvazian's new book Psalms in Ordinary Voices is forthcoming. As one of the co-chairs of Religious Witness for the Earth, Rev. Ayvazian walked across the state of Massachusetts on the Interfaith Walk for Climate Rescue in March 2007 and she has continued to help people of faith understand that our work to stop global warming is part of our call to be faithful stewards of God's creation. Website: www.haydenvillechurch.org
Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Ph.D. serves as Priest Associate of Grace (Episcopal) Church in Amherst, MA, and has been active in the environmental movement for 20 years. Author of Holy Hunger (2000), Christ's Passion, Our Passions (2003), and numerous articles, she was principal author of the Pastoral Letter, ’To Serve Christ in All Creation,“ issued in 2003 by the Episcopal bishops of New England. A trained spiritual director (Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation), she served for several years as Chaplain to the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops. Since 1986 she has been leading spiritual retreats and workshops across the country, and for more than ten years she taught courses on prayer and spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School, a seminary in Cambridge, MA. She has been active in RWE since her arrest in 2001 at the Dept. of Energy in Washington DC. Website: www.holyhunger.com Margaret's photo: © 2005 The Republican Company. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Anne D. (Andy) Burt Since 2000, Anne D. (Andy) Burt has been an organizer and program director on spirituality and the environment for the Maine Council of Churches. She developed, and later partnered with Maine Interfaith Power & Light (MeIPL) in support of an EarthCare Team network that links Maine congregations to environmental and energy resources. In addition, with environmental/health organizations, state agencies and volunteers, Andy coordinated the state's first community no-idling project in Freeport. With four other organizations, she has created Maine Partners for Cool Communities, helping citizens in three dozen towns implement global warming solutions locally. In May 2006, she received the EPA New England Region's Environmental Merit Award for outstanding efforts in preserving New England's environment. Website: www.mainecouncilofchurches.org
Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation in Bethesda MD (an EPA Energy Star Congregation), has been with RWE since the beginning. Widely involved in his local community, Fred is currently President of the Washington Board of Rabbis. He is also a veteran of Jewish and interfaith environmental efforts, serving on the boards of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, the Shalom Center, and Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light. Website: www.adatshalom.net
Dr. Roger Gottlieb Roger S. Gottlieb is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fourteen books and more than 100 articles on environmentalism, religious life, contemporary spirituality, political philosophy, ethics, and disability. He is internationally known for his work as a leading analyst and exponent of religious environmentalism, for his passionate and moving account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis, and for his innovative and humane description of the role of religion in a democratic society. Website: www.wpi.edu
Rev. Fred Small Rev. Fred Small is minister of First Church Unitarian, Littleton, Massachusetts, and co-chair of Religious Witness for the Earth. After graduating from Yale (BA, American Studies) and the University of Michigan (JD, MS Natural Resources), Fred worked as a staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation. Fred left CLF to tour internationally as a folksinger and songwriter, releasing seven albums over two decades. Fred earned his MDiv degree from Harvard in 1999. In July 2007, Grist Magazine named Fred one of 15 Green Religious Leaders worldwide. Website: www.fculittle.org
Zo Tobi Zo Tobi is currently serving the Youth Clean Energy Movement as the Northeast Organizer for the Sierra Student Coalition. Raised in New Hampshire by a working-class, Israeli-American father and a middle-class suburban Jewish mother from Massachusetts, Zo finished an undergraduate degree in International Development at Clark University in 2007. In his spare time, he is a Bikram Yoga enthusiast and performs as a progressive folk-rock songwriter in the New England college scene. He maintains some musings of potentially pursuing music full-time, attending Rabbinical school, or taking up a holistic health practice, after having attended to some of the converging catastrophes of the 21st century. Websites: www.zotobi.com and www.ssc.orgRWE Advisory BoardIantha Gantt-Wright, President, The Kenian Group Diversity Consultants Bill McKibben, Author and Activist Michael Klare, Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies, Northampton, MA Rev. Rosemary Bray NcNatt, Senior Minister, The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York Rabbi Sheila Peltz Weinberg, Outreach Director, Institute for Jewish Spirituality |