You want your church to do something for the environment, but where to start? This page from Lutherans Restoring Creation has lots of ideas and links to resources. What are you waiting for? (Photo © Mopic – Fotolia.com)
Great website! Lutherans Restoring Creation
Call it “one stop shopping” for everything a leadership team needs to educate, advocate, preach or equip their congregation to address creation care. Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement. (Photo © Mopic – Fotolia.com)
Highlight environmental concerns this Lent
Check out these suggestions for integrating creation care and environmental concerns into your congregation’s Lenten spiritual practices. Lutherans Restoring Creation provides this resource with plenty of links, suggested reading, and good ideas. (Image: Creation Care Summit, Portland Seminary, Creative Commons License)
‘Planet of the Humans’ and the way forward
Environmental advocates say Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans misleads people into doubting the integrity and effectiveness of renewable energy sources. What’s the real story? Lutherans Restoring Creation put together a nice package of responses and resources. (Photo: Reza Vaziri, Creative Commons)
Integrate Creation Care into your Lenten observances
Civilization is waking up to the reality that the environment is the Number One issue facing us today. Bring some ecological consciousness into your congregation this Lent. Lutherans Restoring Creation has gathered together a number of great resources for study and exploration. (Photo: NASA, public domain)
Climate change and poverty in the household of God
Living in Africa for an extended period afforded an American Christian the opportunity to look at climate change from a much different perspective than we typically see in the United States. Brian Konkol’s observations are challenging to us, who live in a nation that has contributed greatly to the problem. (Photo: Roberto Rizzato, Creative Commons)
Become a ‘Creation Care Congregation’
Another Earth Day come and gone, and your congregation is still on the sidelines? Here’s a helpful guide for the congregation that wants to work to help but doesn’t know how to go about it. Lutherans Restoring Creation have developed this “Congregational Self-Organizing Kit” that will get you well on the road to mobilizing God’s […]
Restoring Creation with Faith
As the planet’s environment faces unprecedented challenges, many Christians are doing much more than either wringing their hands in despair or clasping them together in prayer. They are advocating, teaching, preaching and taking practical steps in their congregations and communities to help not only raise awareness about the environment, but also to help improve it. […]
Why Christians Should Care About Creation
In this podcast the director of Lutherans Restoring Creation discusses the role of creation in theology and the resources available for Christians who want to bring care for creation into their faith lives. From Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary.
Eco-reflection on the Lectionary
It’s always a good Sunday to preach on environmental stewardship, and the folks at Lutherans Restoring Creation provide a weekly reflection that looks at the Lectionary texts with creation in mind. Readings for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost offer plenty of preaching points. (Photo © keller, Fotolia.com)
