"Faith leaders have publicly pleaded with ICE and DHS to let them access the people inside so they can provide spiritual comfort and religious rituals, including delivering communion to detained immigrants. But the DHS has prevented them from doing so. In response, church leaders have sued the Trump administration for violating their first amendment rights."
In this episode of "Reflections on Religion and Ecology: Yale Alumni Speak from the Field," Stephen Blackmer '12 M.A.R.—forest conservationist, Episcopal priest (now former), and founder of Church of the Woods—joins host Tali Anisfeld for a deeply contemplative conversation on trees, prophecy, and spiritual communion with the Earth.
View the interview here: