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I wasn't planning to say much about this, because there's so much I don't know. But now that I've seen this thread, I know more. And from what I know, I have a few things to say.
The title of the class is brilliant. We need ritual/liturgical responses to extractivism. Our entire economy assumes extractivism: the concept that the earth is a set of "natural resources" and we humans have the right to exploit them. Some background: jesuits.org/Assets/Publica…
Extractivism is sin. It disconncts humans from right relationship to the other members of God's creation. And we see the consequences of that sin in various forms of environmental degradation which pose a threat to the diversity of life on earth.
So, developing liturgies which directly address this sin: I'm on board.
I'm also on board here:

"Theologies that encourage humans to dominate and master the Earth have played a deplorable role in degrading God's creation."

Misreading "dominion" is a significant factor in our current ecological crisis. See Ellen Davis: bibleodyssey.org/passages/relat…
However

(yes there is a however)

citing Robin Wall Kimmerer's call to develop new liturgies as almost an authorization of this work

and

saying that what we need is "not just new wine, but new wineskins"

concerns me.
Our Holy Scripture begins in a garden, the garden of Eden.

Where, as @NatiPassow says, God places the human (adam) made from the earth (adamah) "to work it and to protect it."

and God asks us simply to show a little restraint.

Not to be extractive.

@NatiPassow And our Holy Scripture ends in an urban garden with a river flowing from the throne of God.

Where there is a tree of life bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month.

And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. (Rev. 22)
@NatiPassow And the central figure of our faith, Jesus Christ our Lord,

is the one through whom all things were made (John 1)

and in whom all things cohere (Colossians 1)

and what that means is
@NatiPassow If we're Christians, it is and was and always shall be our mandate to tend Creation.

We don't need new authorization for that. It's as old as Holy Scripture.

It's been God's call to us - a call we've failed at - for a very long time.
@NatiPassow Christ gives us a meal to remember him by.

Right now, when I celebrate holy communion, it's with bread baked from heirloom Turkey Red wheat planted in community at @Plainsong_Farm.

It's with wine made with grapes gleaned by my Lutheran friends and given to my church.
@NatiPassow @Plainsong_Farm This is an old liturgy -

the oldest there is! as old as Maundy Thursday!

and yet it is a new liturgy.

There is nothing that teaches resurrection like holding grains of wheat in your hand, burying them in earth and watching them rise again.
@NatiPassow @Plainsong_Farm "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."

American Christians, our work is to fall into the earth and die.

To die to greed and to power and yes, to extractivism.
@NatiPassow @Plainsong_Farm The one who shows us that way is Jesus Christ.
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