The Threshold — a monthly community of inquiry, wonder, and conversation, open to everyone.

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MST

The Threshold is like a book club where the “book” will be a featured text selected by the Institute for Deep Ecumenism planning group (our team of academics, clergy, and practitioners from across the spectrum of faith traditions). That may be an article, a video, an actual book, or occasionally a conversation with a practitioner that opens a window into a particular tradition, a pressing question, or a moment of genuine interspiritual encounter.

THIS MONTH join us in reading Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman—then come to our virtual roundtable discussion on June 25th.

Registration is free of charge - let us know you're joining us and receive the Zoom link

Why Now?

We believe the world is asking something of its spiritual communities right now. The divisions between us — across faith, culture, and political life — are real and consequential. But so is the longing beneath them. When we open the doors of our sacred traditions and invite others across the threshold, we discover that beneath our different prayers and ceremonies lives the same longing — and it is in that shared longing that healing begins.

The Threshold is our offering into that possibility.

With Stephen Jurovics, Ph.D.

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM EST

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM MST

Eight hundred thousand years of Earth's memory are stored in polar ice — and when scientists drill deep enough to read it, what they find is a warning written in carbon. The story of atmospheric CO₂ since the Industrial Revolution is unlike anything in that long record: a steep, dramatic departure from all that came before.

But data alone does not move us to action. Faith does.

This workshop invites people of faith to look honestly at what the science reveals — through graphs, ice cores, and atmospheric readings taken at Mauna Loa since 1958 — and then to ask: What does our tradition ask of us in response? Drawing on biblical teachings that speak to human responsibility for the living world, we will explore how the effects of climate change are not merely ecological facts but moral ones — and how our faith traditions have always known this.