'Earth-Honoring Faith' Tagged Posts
How might we practice an Earth-honoring faith today?
Fr. John Chryssavgis defines asceticism as as an Earth-honoring way of faith which calls us to… travel light—we can always manage with less than we imagine; let go—we are to learn to relinquish our desire to control; open up—we are called to create bonds, to reunite, to reconcile; soften up—how can we make our communities less savage, more inhabitable? tread light—we must not hurt, we must stop wounding our environment; live simply—not complicating our relationship with each other and with our…
On Care For Our Common Home
Pope Francis released an encyclical earlier this summer calling for the care of Earth. Here is a link to the letter by Pope Francis entitled Laudato Si: On Care For Our Common Home. The title comes from the Canticle of the Sun by Saint Francis of Assisi. As we continue our worship series on Earth-Honoring Faith, we encourage you to take some time to read this important document.
Toward Sunday
We will turn this week from Consumption to Climate and reflect upon how our faith might shape the ways we consume. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when we attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and…
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series called Earth-Honoring Faith. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when Matt and I attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and encourage us to respond more faithfully in our daily…
Toward Sunday
We continue our four-week worship series called Earth-Honoring Faith. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when we attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and encourage us to respond more faithfully in our daily lives. Outline for Earth-Honoring Faith ▪August 16:…
Caring
“Song is more than lament and consolation; it is inspiration. Song bears the human spirit at its most expressive and expansive. This time, however, the song we sing must learn humbly and deeply from the changing Earth we inhabit. Its melodies and harmonies must be Earth-oriented in ways matched to our sober responsibility for a contracting planet in jeopardy at human hands. We are not onlookers or audience this time, guilty or innocent bystanders. We are, like jazz singers and…
Toward Sunday
We transition this week from our worship series called On Ramp to a four-week worship series called Earth-Honoring Faith. The outline for this worship series began to develop earlier this summer when Matt and I attended a conference called Seizing An Alternative. We hope this worship series will encourage us to consider how our faith tradition calls us to honor the earth. The earth is in a time of peril and we believe our Christian tradition can both teach and…