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All Saints', Concord: Growing Native Tree Saplings - A New Creation Care Ministry

Cimate change is a threat to the health of our planet and has the most adverse effects on those with the least resources. Planting the right tree in the right place removes carbon from the atmosphere, provides shade to lower utility costs, filter...

Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount, Grows Day School Garden

Lots of things grow at the Good Shepherd Day School in Rocky Mount: imagination, knowledge, children, love and even radishes. The Day School, which has stayed open throughout the pandemic, has planted a garden for which the children and staff hav...

Nature and Grace in a Time of Coronavirus

I am writing this in the middle of Holy Week. It is a time when our churches are usually bustling with Holy Week activities, and we are concluding our Lenten journeys of penance and reflection, engaging in the ritual orientation of our liturgical...

Going Solar: St. Andrew's, Greensboro, Welcomes a Different Kind of Energy

Are you concerned with the rising cost of your parish's energy bills and concerned with the carbon footprint your parish is leaving for our children or grandchildren? Have you considered reducing the carbon footprint and reducing the amount of en...

Baby Steps, Big Change

By Nell Joslin At Christ Church Raleigh, we are now two years into a Creation Care program that started with the efforts of a handful of parishioners. Although our large parish, which occupies the be...

Climate Strike 2019: Our Youth and Our World Need Us

By Becky Showalter I know that the scripture passage “and a child shall lead them” from Isaiah is overused and often taken out of context, but I couldn’t help it. They were the words that kept ...

Fingers on the Same Hand

By the Rev. Jill Staton Bullard In 1975, I planted a garden in the middle of the Kansas plains. It was my very first garden, my very first attempt at growing food. Farmer Fred, our landlord and one ...

Keeping Cool and Saying Our Prayers

By The Rev. Stephanie Allen I propose that rather than giving newly ordained priests gifts such as stoles or communion kits, we should gift every last ordinand with a copy of HVAC Systems for Dummie...

Changing Climate, Constant Faith

By Dr. Stan Meiburg The Easter season coincides with Earth Day. In reflecting on this, I found myself contemplating the story of Dives and Lazarus, from Luke 16:19-31 . It’s a fam...

Deacon Reflection: A Ministry for Justice in Agriculture

By The Rev. Harrel Johnson Almighty God, We thank you for making the earth fruitful, so that it might produce what is needed for life; Bless those who work in the fields; give us seasonable weather;...

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