News
In a National Day for the Gulf, Faith Communities Seek Healing: Oct 3, 2010- Communities of faith came together to pray for the long-term healing of the region and to call for a Congressional response. Click here to read more.
Faith Communities Continue to Work to Restore the Gulf Coast. Click here to find out what people of faith are doing and how you can get involved.
European Pilgrimage for Safeguarding Creation: The Roman Catholic Bishops' Conferences in Europe convened a 5- day pilgrimage, from Hungary to Austria. Click here to read the story.
New Community Project (NCP) Experiential Learning Tours. In2011, NCP will offer learning tours to Burma, Sudan, the Ecuadorian Amazon, El Salvador, and Denali and Kenai Fjords and an arctic village in Alaska. Click here to learn more.
Maryland Churches Going Green! Click here to read an article in the Baltimore Sun about faith communities making a commitment to stewardship by Raven L. Hill.
National Cathedral Blesses the Animals. Hundreds of pets were blessed on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi Click here to read more and see pictures of the event.
Get Involved
Webinar with Mallory McDuff, a religious, environmental and climate leader, and author of Natural Saints. Listen in on an interview and ask Mallory your questions on October 28, 2010 from 4:00-4:30 est. Click here for details on this event sponsored by Green Faith.
Opportunities for Maryland Churches: Tell us what you love about God's Creation in the Chesapeake Bay. Submit your story in 100 words or less by Friday, November 15, 2010. The three most inspiring stories will be featured on our website and the authors will each receive a copy of the Green Bible. (Pictures are not required but strongly encouraged.) Click here to submit your story. Download Resources here.
Events
Green my Faith Workshop: Bozeman, MT November 9, 2010. Learn how to start a green faith program in your congregation. Click here to download a brochure.
Ground for Hope New Jersey November 14-15, 2010.
GreenFaith, The Green Seminary Initiative, Drew Theological School, and Watchung Avenue Presbyterian Church are hosting this environmental education and leadership event for Clergy, Laity, Seminarians, and Seminaries. For information on speakers, workshops and opportunities to get involved, contact Fletcher Harper revfharper@greenfaith.org
Earth Care Summit January 31, 2011. EMO’s Interfaith Network for Earth Concerns invites all congregations interested in being better stewards of Creation to a celebration and gathering of congregations going green. The event will include a locally grown dinner, silent auction and presentations from congregations about their greening efforts. Click here for details.
Resources
At the Lord's Table: Every Day Thanksgiving .
Download a resource designed to help communities of faith eat mindfully--mindful of the farmers and rural communities, the rich soil and clean water, and God's plentiful provision--without which our tables would be empty. Doing so instills thanksgiving and calls us to right relationship with all of creation. Explore and celebrate the blessing of every bite with this guide for study, worship, and action.
Book: The Friends We Keep: Unleashing Christianity's Compassion for Animals. By Laura Hobgood-Oster.
This book describes the situations faced by many of the animals among us today, reminds us of the role animals have played in the history of Christianity, and offers a vision of Good News for the future. Click here to learn more.
Book: An Ethics of Biodiversity: Christianity, Ecology, and the Variety of Life. By Kevin J. O'Brien.
Bringing scientific data into conversation with theological tradition, the book offers a set of tools for students, environmentalists, and people of faith to think critically about how human beings can live with and as part of the variety of life in God’s creation. Click here to learn more.
Recycle at your church while raising money for charity. Collect trash your congregation would otherwise throw away like candy wrappers, cell phones, pens, coffee bags, and more and send it in to be recycled into new products. Click here to learn more.
