His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will host the second Halki Summit in Heybeliada, Turkey. The summit, to be held June 8-10, is a gathering of activists, scientists, journalists, business leaders, theologians, and academics engaging and working across intellectual boundaries to bring the global environmental discussion to a new and richer place.
Halki Summit II, organized by Ecumenical Patriarchate and Southern New Hampshire University, will focus on “Theology, Ecology, and the Word: A Conversation on the Environment, Literature and the Arts.” Summit participants will discuss the relationship between nature and art. Keynote speakers include renowned literary critic Terry Eagleton, acclaimed American author Terry Tempest Williams, celebrated political economist Raj Patel, award-winning environmental photographer James Balog, and esteemed theologian-apiculturist Timothy Gorringe.
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