Caring for God’s creation and being wise financial stewards of resources go hand-in-hand when saving energy! The April webinar introduced the EPA Portfolio Manager as a free tool to help your church reduce its energy bill and start saving money! Presenters: Jerry Lawson (EPA EnergyStar for Congregations), Mike Lorimer and Jo Randolph (Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church), Dorothy Grimes (Montevallo Presbyterian Church). Watch the Recording!
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Extracting Life: Mining and its Lasting Impressions on the Environment & Communities (Presbyterian Church USA)
As people consume more energy and technology products, the demand for fossil fuels, metals and minerals continues to rise. This increase has fueled a corresponding rise in conflicts, poverty, corruption, pollution and environmental degradation in the communities and countries in which extractive resources are mined. This webinar looks specifically at problems associated with smelting in Peru and mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia, and analyzes the extractive industries more broadly in Latin America as well as globally. Panelists: Rev. Jed Koball (PCUSA Mission co-worker), Robin Blakeman (PCUSA Teaching Elder working with Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition) and Carlos Lozano-Acosta (AIDA – Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense).Watch the Recording!
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God’s Concern: A Biblical reflection on Hunger (Presbyterian Church USA)
In this Bible study we consider God’s concern about and provision for the multi-layered hunger that is a reality of our life together. The Hunger Program, Barry Ensign-George, Associate for Theology in the Office of Theology & Worship, and Patty Sanders, the Hunger Action Advocate from Presbytery of the Redwoods, reflect on hunger in the Bible and our call to respond to God’s concern. Watch the recording.
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World Food Day Begins with Seed Sovereignty (Presbyterian Church USA)
Approaching World Food Day, we explain fundamental barriers to serving up the right to food with a special focus on a critical ingredient – seeds. Presenters explain the role of seeds in more democratic, equitable, and sustainable local and global food and farm systems. Seeds bring the cultural aspects of agriculture, and the freedom to save and maintain control over seeds is foundational to food sovereignty. Farmers know this, and multinational corporations do as well. While the power of corporations is concentrated and focussed, farmers are naturally dispersed and challenged to unite their voices and influence. Hear how farmers and allies are succeeding in changing the landscape, and how we can support these efforts locally, nationally and globally.
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Café Justo, A Hopeful Supply Chain Story (Presbyterian Church USA)
Join the Presbyterian Hunger Program to learn how one cooperative in Mexico is keeping farmers on their land and families together. Presenters include Teresa Wagner from the Office of the General Assembly and Adrian Gonzalez from Café Justo. Watch the recording.
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Fifty Years Later: The State of Racism in America (The Episcopal Church)
Source: The Episcopal Church
Ray Suarez, host of ‘Inside Story’ on Al Jazeera America, moderates the event, and Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivers the keynote address.
The first panel discussion, “Racism in America Today: Why Does It Persist?” features:
The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry, bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina
Ms. Myrlie Evers-Williams, journalist and widow of slain civil-rights leader Medgar Evers
The Hon. William F. Winter, former governor of Mississippi and founder of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation
Panelists on the second topic, “Racism in America’s Future: Where Is There Hope for Change?” include:
The Hon. Byron Rushing, Massachusetts state representative, civil-rights leader, and vice president of The Episcopal Church’s House of Deputies
Dr. Randy Testa, author, Vice President of Education at Walden Media, LLC
Dr. Erma J. Vizenor, chairwoman of White Earth Band of Ojibwe, educator, and community organizer
Tim Wise, educator and author of Colorblind (City Lights, 2010), White Like Me (Soft Skull Press, 2008), and Affirmative Action (Routeledge, 2005)
On November 16, faith leaders and educators gathered at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Cathedral to discuss and create curriculum and tools on the topics raised in the forum. Resources such as bibliography, on-demand video, materials for community and individual review, discussion questions, and lesson plans will be available.
Learn more about these webinars from The Episcopal Church (Please note the first video shown is a trailer for this event. Other webinar videos can be found by hovering your mouse over the word PLAYLIST on the right hand side of the video).
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Adamah & Adam – Earthlings Building Food Justice (Presbyterian Church USA)
Adam is the first human created from the red earth, Adamah. We, who have been given the gift of existence and life, have the duty to care for the soil beneath our feet, which along with the waters, provides food for us and for future generations. As part of our celebration of the 2015 International Year of Soils, this webinar brings together a theologian, a soil scientist, a farmer, and a food sovereignty advocate to discuss the revival of agrarian values and the paths to soil health, earth justice and food sovereignty. What are the personal, communal and global commitments we must make to cultivate a just and healthy neighborhood and planet? Watch the recording.
Learn more about the Presbyterian Hunger Program webinars
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Creating Welcoming Multicultural UU Communities (Unitarian Universalist Association)
Fulfilling the affirmation and promise of the second principle requires that we attend carefully to systems of injustice in our midst and the hurts those systems cause. It requires that we be prophets, daring to work in this life for a Now that gets us closer to fulfilling the promise of our sixth principle: the goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all. Dismantling systems of privilege and oppression within our community faith allows us to co-create the Beloved Community of Love and Justice that we aspire to.
Dean: Rev. Alicia Forde, Program Coordinator for Multiracial Congregations, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).
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The Difficulty of Being Just: Including Those with Disabilities in Congregational Life (Unitarian Universalist Association)
This workshop examines attitudes and practices toward people with disabilities and will offer strategies for greater acceptance and inclusion.
Presented by Mark Bernstein, CERG Growth Development Consultant
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Creating Sanctuary for Ourselves and Others (Spirituality and Practice)
Source: Spirituality and Practice
Terry Hershey, an inspirational speaker, storyteller, ordained minister, and landscape designer, focuses much of his ministry on helping people nurture their spiritual lives. He presented a prior S&P e-course on pausing and is the author of Sanctuary: Creating a Space for Grace in Your Life. (see below)
He is joined by Patricia Campbell Carlson, who developed S&P’s e-course on praying the hours and helmed three courses on the teachings of Br. David Steindl-Rast. Her insights into gratitude, grief, and reverence have reached thousands through the online vehicles of Gratefulness.org and Cornell University’s “Dear Uncle Ezra” column, a forerunner in online counseling.
In this exclusive e-course developed for Spirituality & Practice, Terry and Patricia view sanctuary as both a personal boon and a cultural need that we all have a responsibility to fulfill. The course focuses on these themes:
- The Need for Sanctuary
- Creating Our Own Sanctuaries; Elements of Design that Make Sanctuaries Effective
- Religious Tools for Establishing Sanctuary
- Offering Sanctuary; Creating Public Spaces that Invite Others to be Replenished
You will receive:
- 12 Emails in which Terry and Patricia share teachings, stories, and personal examples to spark your creativity.
- Simple activities for you to try as you both design a sanctuary and offer sanctuary to others. You will be encouraged to examine what you long for in sanctuary, what personal and cultural blocks keep you from fulfilling that yearning, how you renew yourself, how you find or create or name sanctuary places, how you provide sanctuary for your loved ones and your larger community, and other matters vital to this far-reaching topic.
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