The Living Earth Faith

Reclaim your place as a guardian of Earth — and of Love

A spiritually grounded, hope-filled school that weaves together faith, ecology, and the power of love — teaching you to see Earth as the sacred, living gift it truly is, and to stand boldly for it.

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The Living Earth Faith

"The Spirit of Love is not a comfort for the suffering — it is a force with a real claim on how we live, and this Earth is the sacred trust it has placed in our hands."David Clilverd

What you'll learn

What you'll be able to do

  • Articulate a theologically grounded vision of Earth as a sacred gift — the real Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark in deep space — and explain it compellingly to others
  • Recognise the Spirit of Love as an active, present force in daily life and understand how to align your choices with it rather than with fear, apathy, or despair
  • Connect your personal faith life directly to the ecological crisis through a coherent, hope-based worldview that moves you from bystander to guardian
  • Apply the practice of 'living in the present' as a spiritual discipline — staying grounded, purposeful, and awake rather than paralysed by the scale of the world's challenges
  • Identify the 'enemy' forces — not as people, but as systems and habits of mind (greed, disconnection, short-termism) — and engage them with love-powered courage and clarity
  • Build a sustainable daily rhythm of prayer, reflection, and action that keeps faith, hope, and responsibility integrated rather than compartmentalised
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The curriculum

What's inside your school

6 modules · 18 lessons

1

Earth as Sacred Gift: Recovering Our Holy Home

Lay the theological and spiritual foundation for the entire course. Students will encounter Earth not as a backdrop to human history but as the living, beloved gift at the centre of it — the real Garden of Eden and humanity's Ark in the vast darkness of space. This module dismantles the false divide between 'spiritual' and 'natural' and replaces it with a vision of sacred interconnection.

  • 1.1The Garden We Already Live InIncluded
  • 1.2Noah's Ark in Deep SpaceIncluded
  • 1.3When the Gift Is in Crisis: Facing the Truth Without DespairIncluded
2

The Spirit of Love: Knowing the Force That Can Change Everything

Move from worldview to inner power. This module helps students identify, experience, and trust the Spirit of Love as a real, active presence — not an abstract theological concept. They will learn to distinguish this Spirit from fear, ego, and despair, and begin practising alignment with it in daily life.

  • 2.1What the Spirit of Love Actually Feels LikeIncluded
  • 2.2Alignment vs. Drift: Choosing Love in an Age of DistractionIncluded
  • 2.3Love as Power, Not Sentiment: Engaging the World with Spiritual ForceIncluded
3

Living in the Present: The Spiritual Discipline of Being Here

Introduce 'living in the present' as the core spiritual practice of the course — the discipline that prevents paralysis, sustains joy, and makes love actionable. Students learn that presence is not escapism from the world's pain but the very posture that makes faithful engagement possible.

  • 3.1The Paralysis Trap: Why the Future Steals Our PowerIncluded
  • 3.2Presence as Resistance: Attention as a Spiritual ActIncluded
  • 3.3Rooted Joy: Sustaining Hope Without DenialIncluded
4

Naming the Enemy: Systems, Habits, and the Battle for Our Choices

Equip students with the spiritual and analytical tools to identify the real adversary — not other people, but the entrenched systems and habits of mind (greed, disconnection, short-termism, despair) that are driving the ecological and spiritual crisis. Students learn to engage these forces with love-powered clarity rather than fear, anger, or hopelessness.

  • 4.1The Enemy Is Not Who You ThinkIncluded
  • 4.2Greed, Disconnection, and Short-Termism: Understanding the TriadIncluded
  • 4.3Engaging with Love-Powered CourageIncluded
5

From Guardian to Community: Building the Body of Love

Widen the lens from individual practice to collective action. Students discover that love's full power is released in community — that the guardian vocation is not a solo spiritual heroism but a shared, interwoven life. This module builds the relational, organisational, and missional skills needed to sustain faith-driven ecological action alongside others.

  • 5.1You Were Not Made to Do This AloneIncluded
  • 5.2Speaking the Vision: Articulating Faith and Earth to OthersIncluded
  • 5.3Building Bridges: Interfaith and Secular Collaboration for the EarthIncluded
6

A Rhythm for the Long Haul: Prayer, Reflection, and Faithful Action

Bring everything together into a sustainable, integrated daily rhythm. This capstone module ensures students leave not just inspired but practically equipped — with personal liturgies, action commitments, and community connections that weave faith, hope, and responsibility into the fabric of ordinary life for the long term.

  • 6.1Designing Your Daily Rhythm of Faith and ActionIncluded
  • 6.2Staying Awake: Practices for Ongoing Renewal and Resistance to DriftIncluded
  • 6.3Sending: Going as Guardians of the Living EarthIncluded

Who it's for

Is this you?

The Faithful Ecologist

A churchgoer who loves creation deeply but has never found language to unite their green convictions with their Sunday faith — until now.

The Spiritually Restless

Raised religious but drifted, they still feel the pull of something sacred and find it most powerfully in the natural world.

The Climate-Grieving Parent

Losing sleep over what kind of world their children will inherit and desperate for a framework that is honest, hopeful, and not despairing.

The Interfaith Seeker

Draws from multiple traditions and hungers for a vision of Earth and spirit that is big enough to hold them all together.

The Burnt-Out Activist

Has marched, signed, and campaigned — but feels spiritually empty from fighting without a deep root of love and hope to sustain them.

The Contemplative Elder

A lifetime of faith has brought them to a place of deep concern for the living world, and they want to spend their remaining years as a purposeful guardian of it.

Questions

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Your teacher

A note from your teacher

David Clilverd

David Clilverd

If you have found your way here, I suspect you already feel what I feel — that something is deeply at stake, and that the usual responses are not enough.

Maybe you have sat in a congregation, or a forest, or at your kitchen table reading the news, and felt the gap between the faith you carry inside and the world unravelling outside. Maybe you love this Earth with an ache that surprises you — the way the light falls through leaves, the way a child holds a ladybird in cupped hands — and you cannot reconcile that love with what you are watching happen to the biosphere that makes all of it possible. Maybe you are tired of choosing between taking your spiritual life seriously and taking the ecological crisis seriously, as though they were two separate things requiring two separate selves.

I made this school because I believe they are the same thing. Earth is not a backdrop. It is the gift. It is, in the most literal sense I know, our ark in deep space — a single, closed, fragile vessel carrying every species, every ecosystem, every child that has ever lived, through the cold and the dark. And the Love that made it — the Love that is God's spirit moving in and through us — is not a comfort for the suffering. It is a force. A real power with a real claim on how we live.

What I have tried to build here is not a theology course and not an activism manual — though it touches both. It is something closer to a practice of seeing: learning to live so fully present to the sacredness of this world that indifference becomes impossible, and that action flows not from guilt or fear but from love. That shift — from fear-driven reaction to love-rooted response — is, I believe, the most important thing any of us can make.

I do not have all the answers. But I have sat with these questions for a long time, and I have found threads of hope that are stronger than they first appear. I would like to hand those threads to you. Come in. The world needs what you carry.

David Clilverd

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