Cindy moe biography

Cynthia Moe is an author, teacher and speaker with a passion for history and for an open, generous and hopeful spirituality.
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Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and many parts of North America in theological ethics.

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Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary-Berkley

cmoelobeda@plts.edu
2770 Marin Ave
Berkeley CA 94708
206 384-8760 (cell phone)

Current Position/Vocation/Location

Professor of Theological and Social Ethics

Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

Relevant Publications by Speaker

Selected Books

· Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2013.

· Public Church: For the Life of the World. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.

· Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002.

· Saint Francis and the Foolishness of God (with Marie Dennis, Joe Nangle OFM, and Stuart Taylor), Orbis Books, 1993 and 2015.

Selected Articles and Chapters

· “Climate Colonialism, Climate Debt, Climate Justice: Garden Earth Envisioned and Embodied.” In John Hart, ed. Blackwell Companion to Religion and Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

· “Love Incarnate: Hope and Power for Climate Justice.” In Alan Padgett and KiaraJorgenson, eds., For the Love of

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Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

Professor of Theological and Social Ethics
cmoelobeda@plts.edu
206 384-8760
B.A., St. Olaf College
M.T.S, Wesley Theological Seminary
M.S.W, University of Washington, Seattle
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary

Curriculum Vitae

Bio:

Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and many parts of North America in theological ethics addressing matters of economic globalization, moral agency and hope, public church, faith-based resistance to systemic injustice, ethical implications of resurrection and incarnation, the Bible and ethics, theo-ethical method, and climate justice as related to race and class. Her ethical approach weds Earth ethics to liberation theologies including eco-feminist theology. She is author or co‐author of six volumes and numerous chapters and articles.

Dr. Moe-Lobeda was appointed theological consultant to the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has served as a health wor

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CYNTHIA MOE-LOBEDA – Climate Change as Climate Debt: Forging a Just Future

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March 7, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm PST

SPEAKER: Cynthia Moe-Lobeda Professor of Theological and Social Ethics Church Divinity School of the Pacific DATE: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 TIME: 4:00-5:30pm PLACE: 126 Barrows TITLE: Climate Change as Climate Debt: Forging a Just Future DESCRIPTION: Climate change may be the most far reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege yet to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people who also are disproportionately people of color. This presentation will first posit climate change as a compelling moral matter of “race- and class-based climate debt” and “Global North climate-debt.” Part Two will draw upon the descriptive task of Christian ethics as a critical discourse to frame a moral response. A brief third section will suggest keys to accepting commensurate moral responsibility. Finally, drawing upon international environm