Creation Care
Creation Care Resources for Lent
As we enter the season of Lent we have the opportunity to reflect and to integrate creation care into our Lenten practices. The following resources offer an invitation into daily practices of meditation, prayer, and action. Share these resources with your congregation or creation care committee, or use them for your own personal Lenten journey. […]
Freedom Flows Along the Coasts: Environmental History is Black History
By the Rev. Melanie Mullen This month, we honor Black History Month by sharing stories about African American history in creation care and the significant intersection of racial and environmental justice that models and adds contours to our experience of faithful, ethical practices. Barrier islands constitute 10% of the world’s coastlines, and representative is Hatteras […]
Introducing the Churchwide Task Force on Care of Creation and Environmental Racism
By the Rev. Stephanie Johnson In October 2022, the Task Force on Care of Creation and Environmental Racism was reestablished based on Resolution A086, adopted by General Convention in Baltimore in July. This is the third time that an interim body has been convened to assist the church in responding to the growing threat of climate change, […]
Finding Spirituality in Nature: Fishing Ministry in Arlington, Virginia
By Pete Nunnally Last year, during the shad run, when ocean-dwelling shad come up the rivers to spawn, I began taking parishioners fishing with me. Soon thereafter a fishing ministry was born, and I’d take groups of parishioners fishing every month or so. Just as this fishing ministry was solidifying, we had the opportunity to […]
Call of Sinai
By John Kydd It’s about 6 am and the call to prayer (adhan meaning “to listen”) rolls gently past my patio headed for the Red Sea. The singer (muezzin) has a wonderful voice, deep and marbled with feeling. And then a second female sounding voice steps in. No duet, just the adhan through a different […]
A School Bus for Kivalina, AK: The Consequences of Climate Change
By Bishop Mark Lattime On November 9, 2022, the children of Kivalina, a small Inupiaq village on the coast of the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean in Western Alaska, rode a bus to school for the first time ever. There has never been a school bus in the village of Kivalina, a community of […]
Working for our Future
By Kara-Lyn Moran I’ll admit that some days the climate crisis seems too big to tackle, too much to solve, and that we are not doing enough to save our planet. It can seem like the leaders that make laws or represent us at climate change conferences are too far from the average person, like […]
What We Love We Will Protect
By Bishop Marc Andrus Two stories I heard on the way to COP27, the latest United Nations climate change conference, being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, reminded me of the truth that “what we love we will protect.” These stories taught me something new about this saying, though – we love beings with souls, and […]
The Episcopal Church & Hurricanes
By Ethan Marshall I am Ethan Marshall and I am a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Southwest Florida. It was a surreal experience riding out Hurricane Ian, even though I was on the weaker side of the storm. You may have heard in the news about Hurricane Ian: this devastating hurricane slammed the southwest […]
Journeying to COP27
by Aisha Huertas “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did it to me.” Matthew 25: 40 The idea of climate change should no longer be debatable. If the science isn’t enough to prove it, the severe climate events witnessed […]
