Benedictine Conversations
Explore the Benedictine legacy in our world today with Benedictine Conversations!
**There is no fee for Benedictine Conversations, but any offering to support this program by the Center for Spirituality and Enrichment (a ministry of the Sisters of St. Scholastica) will be gratefully accepted.
“Beyond Creation Care:
Regenerative Faith Practices
for Earth’s Healing”
with Rev. Dr. David Carlson
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. CT via Zoom
Future dates for Benedictine Conversations
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025 with Sister Lynn McKenzie
- Tuesday, February 24, 2026 with Father John Klassen
- Tuesday, April 21, 2026 with Shannon K. Evans
The ecological crisis calls for people of faith to go beyond caring for creation toward a regenerative relationship with the rest of creation that is integrated into our daily practices and congregational lives. What might such regeneration – such conversion, reformation, justice, repair, healing, resilience – look like in your context? Amid the environmental trauma and grief affecting the whole earth community, we are sustained by the Spirit of Christ’s resurrection through which God is making all things new.
The Rev. Dr. David Carlson is pastor of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Duluth, MN and co-chair of the Northeastern MN Synod EcoFaith Network. Originally from Denver, CO, he holds theological degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and Luther Seminary. “Earth Stewardship and the Missio Dei: Participating in the Care and Redemption of All God Has Made” is the title of his Doctor of Ministry thesis, which he defended in 2016. Pastor Dave believes the church is well suited to help society address ecological needs and the problems of climate change, and that congregations are ideal settings for modeling the kind of earth stewardship needed for a more sustainable world.
St. Scholastica Monastery
1001 Kenwood Avenue
Duluth, MN 55811
(218) 723-6699
retreat@duluthosb.org
Find us in Stanbrook Hall which faces the lake and is next to the chapel by following the signs to Duluth Benedictine Ministries.