Creation Care Blog

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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;...

Questioning what one material means to us By the Rev. Stephanie Allen “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s these little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” - A...

Moving to Zero Waste and Tracking the Impact By Carl Sigel and Christine McTaggart “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s these little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” - Archbishop Desmond Tu...