Loading...Julia Butterfly Hill, the activist who lived 160 feet up in an ancient redwood tree, returns to Kentucky Oct. 24-25 to present programs in Louisville and Lexington. She is the featured speaker during the Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light's program, "Where Spirit Meets Action: Working Together in Response to Climate Change," an initiative designed to inspire responses to climate dchange.
In an email about the program, the Rev. Marian McClure Taylor, executive director of the Kentucky Council of Churches, noted that Julia Butterfly Hill "seems to exemplify the way young adults today develop their spirituality through action -- in this case bold action to care for creation on the part of a preacher's daughter." The activist is the author of the best-seller "The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods" and the subject of the PBS Documentary "Butterfly," both of which chronicle her story.
On Monday, October 24, she will speak in Frazier Hall at Bellarmine University in Louisville, beginning at 7 p.m. (ET). The next evening, October 25, she will speak at 7 p.m. (ET) at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Lexington.
"Where Spirit Meets Action" seeks to encourage participants to respond to climate change by providing them with real life examples representing the broad spectrum of ways that individuals and communities may put their faith into action.
At the close of the program participants will be provided with a commitment card encouraging them to commit to additional ways they will work to reduce their carbon footprint and protect creation.
