
A Prayer for Thanksgiving
This is a prayer for joy in God’s creation from the Book of Common Prayer: O Heavenly Father, who hast filled the world with beauty….

ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MARKET FUNDS TO GO TO ERD FOR HAITI
Every year during the season of Advent, the Trinity Environmental Stewardship Team holds an Alternative Christmas Market. We have helped different agencies with volunteer contributions for good causes having to do with sustainability. This year we are…

CAN COP26 KEEP TO THE 1.5 DEGREE GOAL ?
The Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland is at the most critical stage. This is where the nations must agree on goals for the next few years and to give some hope to those watching that these promises…

REPORT ON THE CLIMATE SUMMIT--SO FAR
The COP26 Climate is well underway in Scotland and there have been two interesting developments so far. More than 100 countries have signed on to a pledge to stop deforestation by…..

THREE TROUBLING SIGNS AS WE GO TO COP26
The climate Summit (COP26) will begin October 31 and run through November 12, 2021. The stakes couldn’t be higher. The Summary Report given by the IPCC earlier this summer….

CELEBRATING UN DAY WITH PRAYER
In April of 1945, over 1,300 people representing 50 nations met together in San Francisco to write a charter that would unite them in an effort to keep the world safe from war. Four nations were the driving force behind such…

A READING & PRAYER GATHERING INVITATION
On the first of September of this year, Pope Francis, Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew issued a joint statement calling for the “preservation of creation” and the urgent need…

A Prayer Attributed to St. Francis
The Season of Creation is coming to an end with the celebration of St. Francis Day, Oct. 4. St. Francis has become known as caring for animals and for his references to natural elements as…

THE NEW JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE
We live in astounding times and the news of the new James Webb Space Telescope, a joint US, European Union and Canadian $10 billion project, is on track to send even more beautiful and…

A PRAYER FOR THE SEASON OF CREATION
The theme of 2021’a Season of Creation is “Renewing the Oikos of God”. According to Genesis, God places a dome over the entire earth, making it a common home or the “Oikos of God”. It is also sometime called…

JOINT STATEMENT OF RELIGIOUS LEADERS ON THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Since September begins the Season of Creation for all three of the world’s top Christian traditions, it was an opportune time to release a joint statement of urgent concern about the climate crisis. This statement, signed by Archbishop….

TEST Tidbits: Season of Creation 2021
The Season of Creation is the period of time from Sept. 1 through Oct. 4 that many Christian communities use to celebrate God’s gift of the earth to us and…

TEST TIDBITS: DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE PART TWO
The Declaration of Interdependence, written by David Suzuki and others from the Suzuki Foundation, was presented thirty years ago at the Climate Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Last week’s article focused on…..

TEST TIDBITS: THE DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE— PART ONE
In 1989, David Suzuki, a Canadian radio host did a series of programs he called,” It’s a Matter of survival”. He was an early believer that much of the damage to our planet was….

TEST TIDBITS: 2021 SUMMARY REPORT FROM THE IPCC
A few days ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a United Nations entity that has been working over the last seven years in gathering, reviewing and synthesizing information from member nations scientists, has….

TIDBITS: WHAT IS THE CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE?
Most people in today’s world can actually “see” that the planet is in the middle of a large shift in the weather patterns. We have all experienced the extreme weather event this past winter that dropped the temperature well below zero in our area and…..

WHAT IS THE IPCC REPORT & WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
The IPCC is meeting right now and will deliver its summary report in early August which in turn will be used by those meeting in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31 to November 12, 2021. But what is the IPCC…..

A SELECTION FROM THE CHINOOK PSALTER
Wildfires are raging once again in our western states, eating up fast swaths of trees. Watching these fires burn out if control is difficult because….

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTS BEGS US TO STEWARDSHIP ACTIONS
However, does the information really lead us into actions in our daily lives? And once we have begun to digest facts and take some action, do we continue to broaden our efforts….

HEAT DEATHS AND OUR POWER GRID
The CDC is predicting that with hotter summers, the U. S. will face increased heat deaths due to brownouts and blackouts of our electric grids, especially….