As species continue to disappear - at 1000 times ...the rate of natural extinction processes - the need grows for compassionate ways to confront this violence and reorient ourselves towards life. On the International Day for Remembrance of Lost Species, we will join in ritual as an expression of sacred activism and in loving intention for a future of reconciliation and respect in the Earth Community.

Join us on Nov. 30, 2024 as we commemorate, through ritual, the lives of those species now extinct in the Great Lakes Bioregion, making visible the reality of living during the Sixth Mass Extinction, and offering an opportunity to embody a loving relationship to the earth community.

You will require a wreath form, an embroidery or hula hoop, or bent wire coat hanger, 12 – 15 coloured yarns, raffia, or strips of cloth stretched across and attached to the hoop, a pair of scissors. 

Rev. Dr. Carol Kilby is the author of Evolutionary Dancer, Out, In, and on the Fringe of the Church

Ordained in the United Church of Canada (1991), she holds a Masters of Divinity from the University of Toronto, and a Doctor of Ministry from the University of Creation Spirituality (2004). Responding to the planetary crisis, Kilby stepped out of ministry to found and coordinate the Gaia Centre for Eco-Spirituality and Sustainable Work (2005). When she returned to offer supply ministry at Kinmount United Church, she found herself in an experiment in Evolutionary Spirituality which inspired her to write.

She is also author of Our Cosmic Beatitudes - A Code of Being for this Evolutionary Moment. Kilby is a contributing member of the Deep Time Network, Creation Spirituality Communities, and host of a webinar program: Evolutionary Ritual Community. She resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.