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  • Rev. Margie has a Bachelor of Arts, as well as a Master of Religion, and a Master of Divinity Degree from Liberty University. She has also received a Doctor of Humane Religious Studies from Emerson Theological Institute, as well as a Doctor of Ministry from Global Ministries University. She is an ordained Interfaith Minister with a Focus on Ecospirituality, as well as an ordained Animal Chaplain and Animal Bereavement Facilitator. Through her own spiritual experience of performing activities in nature, and teaching these classes herself, she was awarded a Certification as an Eco-Art Therapist from Project Nature Connect. Drawing upon this expertise and combining it with her studies in Creation Spirituality at GMU, she received her doctorate, which focuses on Creation Spirituality and Environmental Justice. Due to these experiences, Rev. Margie was moved to write two children’s books on the subject. She also composed a Creation Spirituality poem which was published in the GreenSpirit UK Magazine, in a Creation Spirituality Newsletter, and in a book entitled Anthology of Poems for GreenSpirits. In addition, she has written the text for this course, which invites the reader to engage in nature-related activities as approached through the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality. She is also the facilitator for TH580 Creation Spirituality Course at GMU. Rev. Margie regards it as her mission to share with others what she has learned so that they, too, might come to understand their own natural connection to the Earth.