Our Spirituality and Ecology is an ongoing small group dedicated to environmental justice and creation care. Through devotion based conversation, planning events and concrete action this group lives out God's call to stewardship of our environment and natural resources. It meets monthly on Wednesdays at 7pm. For login info please email info@bainbridgecommunityucc.org
The UCC Environmental Justice blog has several articles on Climate Change. Articles of note include:
Connecting the Coronavirus and Climate Change
and
Spiritual Ecology: Environmental Organizations as "Climate Churches"
Is an environmental ministry run Rev. Terry Gallagher. His website https://sustainingcreation.org has a verity of resources, many of them videos.
Brooks Berndt, UCC National Minister on Environmental Justice has written the book Cathedral on Fire. In it he suggests the urgency of the climate crisis requires that we act as if our cathedrals and churches are on fire. Indeed, God’s creation can be seen as one grand cathedral on fire with burning forests and rising temperatures. Amid t
Brooks Berndt, UCC National Minister on Environmental Justice has written the book Cathedral on Fire. In it he suggests the urgency of the climate crisis requires that we act as if our cathedrals and churches are on fire. Indeed, God’s creation can be seen as one grand cathedral on fire with burning forests and rising temperatures. Amid this dire situation, he focuses our attention on the unique and vitally needed gifts that churches can offer. He writes with poetic passion but also with an eye toward the practical as every chapter ends with suggested, field-tested actions.
For a copy contact bainbridgecommunity@gmail.com
What happens when we think about human organizations as complex, networked systems rather than machines? How do our questions change, and how do our decision-making criteria change, if our goal is leading and designing living systems?