- Meets: Monthly on the 3rd Sunday at 12:00PM in Library or Green Room
- Contact: Elizabeth L Keathley, elkeathl@uncg.edu or Don Johnson, weddjohnson@msn.com
Greening Parish is an ecumenical movement that seeks to take seriously the care of God’s creation and express that care in liturgy, formation, and service, including charitable acts and public advocacy. We educate ourselves, our parish, and our neighbors; forge alliances with other groups; green our own grounds with native plants, engage in political advocacy, and write relevant, informative columns for the Christ Church Weekly.
The team does not meet during the summer months.
Recent Greening Articles
- An invitation from Fr. Samuel Torvend.
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, every effort in worship and formation that leads our congregations to serve as advocates for - Advocacy Action: New ESA “Harm” RuleLast 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 killed, and it removes any consideration about habitat destruction or degradation. This new rule, the
- God is Good
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 is good.1 She writes, “One often hears in the aftermath of [natural disasters], ‘Why did - Greening Committee Mission
“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 natural world, the challenges human actions pose to nature and to vulnerable human communities, - Climate Justice/ Environmental Justice: Two Approaches
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 currencies, and other digital tools/entertainments magnify already voracious demands for energy even as global temperatures
