Sunday Eucharist | 10:30 (Choral)
In our baptismal covenant we vow to “cherish the wondrous works of God, and protect the beauty and integrity of all creation.” The Christ Church Greening Parish Ministry works to fulfill this vow to care for creation both as individuals and as the Christ Church community.
I hope you are faring well in these summer days – with heat so high in some parts of North America! Lurches in the weather remind us of the peril God’s earth and its many creatures face from human folly. Thus,…
Last week the U.S. Department of the Interior changed the rule about what constitutes “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (1973). The new rule regards “harm” only as something that members of a species suffer when they are wounded or…
During the Lenten season we focus especially on confession and repentance, including repentance for evil done in our name. In her book Life Abundant the ecological theologian Sallie McFague discusses who we imagine is responsible for evil, if God’s reality…
“The mission of the Christ Church Greening Parish Ministry” we’ve said… “…is to become better stewards of God’s creation—its plants and animals (including human animals) and the ecosystems that sustain them. We educate ourselves, our fellow parishioners, and others about…
The scientific consensus is that climate change is an immediate and existential threat to life on earth, and it is driven by humans’ energy consumption, especially the burning of fossil fuels. Those facts should be sufficiently sobering, but AI, crypto…
A Christ Church Greening Parish Ministry Event for the Season of Creation On 21 September we enjoyed and learned plenty from a presentation by Laurie Swan, PhD, DPT, Pierce County Extension Master Gardener and Certified Pollinator Steward. Laurie had promised…
As we bid farewell to our glorious summer season and head into autumn, our thoughts may turn to preparing for darker and colder days ahead. How are we to responsibly save enough of our resources for the proverbial “rainy days”…
We live in a time when the current US administration is erasing the climate crisis from public discourse, removing all laws and policies and practices that would protect human life by reversing global warming, and subjugating the most vulnerable of…
Ah, that morning walk with the family dog!
The Christ Church Greening Parish Ministry opened Earth Month with a “Small Planet” edition of Evening Prayer at Table (organized by the Daily Office Ministry). Greening peeps brought soups and salads inspired by Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet (1970).