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The Earth 911 newsletter: Tips on Living Sustainably
Read More: The Earth 911 newsletter: Tips on Living SustainablyIf you want to get good advice on maintaining a sustainable lifestyle you will want to subscribe to the Earth 911 weekly newsletter. The current issue includes an article about apps that help you belong to your local natural world… How to recycle ink and toner cartridges… The hidden danger of personal care products… And…
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More Ways to Live Sustainably
Read More: More Ways to Live SustainablyA reader recently wrote to us about how useful the Creation Care articles were to her daughter Kelsey. Kelsey was working on a Sustainability project for her Earth Science class. The class was required to write a report discussing which renewable and non renewable resources they use on a daily basis; they were required to…
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What to Get for the Person Who Has Everything
Read More: What to Get for the Person Who Has EverythingOn your Christmas gift list do you have someone who always says, “I have everything I need?” Or someone who is striving to live simply and is downsizing? How do you express your love to such friends and relations with a gift if they don’t want a present? Donate to a good cause in their…
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Faith Meets COP28
Read More: Faith Meets COP28The 28th annual meeting of COP is underway in Dubai these two weeks. COP is short for “Conference of the Parties,” meaning those countries who joined—are “party to,” in legal terms—the international treaty called the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ). A central purpose of each COP since 2015 has been to…
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Alternative Commuting
Read More: Alternative CommutingDuring the time of announcements at the 10:30 worship on September 3, Stuart Hobbes talked about his bus commuting, a good way to combat the climate crisis. Stuart and Jamie planned their last move so that they were on a bus route directly to his work. That means they only need one car, which is…
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Meet Katherine Hayhoe: Christian Climate Scientist
Read More: Meet Katherine Hayhoe: Christian Climate ScientistDr. Katherine Hayhoe is a climate scientist, a collaborative researcher, a climate change educator, a public speaker. an advisor and advocate to global organizations, an influential author, and a devout Christian.* Her mission is bridging the gap between climate science and the beliefs of climate deniers, especially evangelicals. In her bestselling book, “Saving Us: A…
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Creating a Pollinator Garden
Read More: Creating a Pollinator GardenAs part of our Season of Creation talks series, Susan Burghes spoke about the pollinator garden she created at the back of the church with some help from Joe Rutter. Then, after the service, she met people at the garden to answer questions and to give away seed packets. She had an avid audience of…
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Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than We Thought
Read More: Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than We ThoughtIt’s too late, our bodies are already full of micro and nanoplastics. As Mark O’Connell writes in the New York Times: “There is plastic in our bodies; it’s in our lungs and in our bowels and in the blood that pulses through us. We can’t see it, and we can’t feel it, but it is…
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Students in Louisville Loved a “Caring for Creation” Post
Read More: Students in Louisville Loved a “Caring for Creation” PostSt. Stephen’s office received a thank you for one of the “Caring for Creation” posts, “What’s So Bad about Plastic?”, that the Old Louisville Student Conservation Association found especially useful in preparing their Environmental Education workshops during April. Leader Marc Kelly wrote to us to say “You shared some great recycling information to incorporate into…
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Extinction
Read More: ExtinctionThere have been five mass extinctions in the history of our planet where more than 75% of species are lost. There were many causes—continental drift, asteroid impacts, simultaneous volcanic eruptions, and, most important: climate change. Scientists now suspect that we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction.Just last week the U.S. Fish and…
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Moses in the Sapphire Cloud
Apophatic and Cataphatic Prayer and the Sinai Theophany He was on the mountain for forty days, and what were those days like? Alone, the sky dense around him, the earth occasionally rumbling, and when he saw a glimpse of the divine, it was as if he was looking through stained glass, stained a deep sapphire.…
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The Mixture of the Multitude: Liberation Readings of Scripture
We gathered on Wednesday evenings throughout July and August, sitting around the ubiquitous plastic folding tables that are known to every church. Sunlight slanted in through the wall of glass windows, and the smells of the parish kitchen— old coffee, musty sponges, cleaning product— filled the room. We were there to study Queer Theology, a…
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St. Francis Feast Day Pet Blessing on Sunday, October 4
Saint Francis’s Feast Day is on October 4th. We will hold our annual pet blessing in the midst of the service. Bring your pet or a photo of your pet to church! If you’re more of a plant person, bring a plant! St. Francis’s care for creation extends to all living things.
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