Ascension to host water justice conference – Thousand Oaks Acorn

Ascension Lutheran Church will be a partner site for Trinity Institutes 46th National Theological Conference on Water Justice from March 22 through 24 at the church, 1600 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks.

The conference will provide guidance for churches and individuals wishing to take unified, faithbased action on the front lines of the water justice movement that assures all people have access to clean, safe drinking water.

At the conference, activists, scholars, authors and experts will offer guidance on the issue.

Conference participation is open to anyone interested in a practical, theological perspective on water justice.

The live global conference will be held at Trinity Church in New York City and webcast across the world.

As a partner site, Ascension will offer all aspects of the conference, including on-site reflection groups to help participants explore the issue and what they can do about it.

Speakers at this years conference include former California Sen. Barbara Boxer, a national leader on environmental protection who served in the House of Representatives for 10 years before becoming a U.S. senator in 1993.

After four terms as senator, she stepped down in 2017 and continues to advocate for environmental justice.

Other speakers are Maude Barlow, a political activist, author, policy critic and a former United Nations senior adviser; Winston Halapuais, the archbishop and primate of the Diocese of Polynesia and Aotearoa New Zealand; Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University; Christiana

Peppard, an expert on the ethics of fresh water and problems of climate change, social justice and sustainability; and Thabo Makgoba, archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.

For more information about attending the conference at Ascension, email Stacy Smith at ssmith@alcto.org, call (805) 495-0406 or visit http://www.alcto.org.

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Ascension to host water justice conference - Thousand Oaks Acorn