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.
How can we build a more just and sustainable food system? On Earth Day, Kenyan-American Gordon Okumu will explore our food choices as a form of creation care. Come join us April 22 @ 7:00 pm in Wells Hall at Christ Episcopal…
Moving to Tacoma and finding that glass recycling was not picked up curbside was a disappointmentto Maria and me, seeing as how it’s the cleanest thing to recycle. I buy food products in glass bottles over plastic whenever possible. I…
You may remember a few days ago when the heavens opened (to coin an original phrase). Rain really poured and the winds made themselves known and there were strikes of lightning. Wow! In the calm the day after, Jeanie and…
Imagine if your body parts and organs could be replaced with bionic counterparts – imagine being unhindered by the constraints that embodiment places upon us. Would we as humans no longer be vulnerable to disease and damage? Would we continue…
Like many of us, I take our little dog for her early morning walk, sometimes in pjs, more often dressed for the day. One lot at the corner of our block is enclosed in a dense, green, leafy hedge. As…
I am coyote, canis latrans, “The laughing dog.” But I am no ordinary coyote. I am Urban Coyote. I live right here in Tacoma and in cities across the country. People are surprised to see me in the concrete jungle…
The news these last few weeks has been so sensational, it’s no surprise that what doesn’t have a simple sound-byte or grisly video slides under the radar. But for anyone who cares about Creation (or children…or their own personal safety…),…
“Where there is no vision the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18) In biblical language the word “vision” means the sense of the presence of God. If we see the world with this sense, we see everything as a manifestation of the…
June 14, 2024 Many folks living around us are in a relationship with trees, or so say readers of the Seattle Times.[1] Maybe you’re one of them. It happened to me, too. Back in Missouri, as Dee and I were hiking…
Friends from our Greening Ministry Team enjoyed our first outing together at the Tacoma Nature Center on Saturday May 25, which took place from 1:30-3pm. Loren and CJ, who are naturalists at the Nature Center, led us on a walk with…