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Building Thriving Congregations: Faith in Action
There has never been a more important time for the faith community to lead. Congregations that actively live out their faith have a ripple effect on the world with the greatest impact on local communities…
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Mosques Encouraged to Go Green
God has appointed humanity as trustees of Earth. Unfortunately, humanity’s increasing footprint is causing unprecedented resource depletion and environmental degradation…
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Apply for the Adamah Climate Action Fund!
So much feels out of our control, like rising temperatures. According to NASA, the summer of 2023 was the hottest on record for our planet and just recently (July 22, 2024) the globe reached the hottest daily temperature ever measured (and may even have been surpassed by the time this is published)…
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California Faith Group Leads Advocacy Against Impacts of Climate and Air Pollution
Based on a student research partnership, Catholic Charities of Stockton’s Environmental Justice Project determined that high-impact polluters are located in a specific area in Stockton, most notably the Port of Stockton, and pose significant health concerns for the community members. These results were used to identify the industries to hold accountable and promote community health…
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International Climate Report is Dedicated to an Evangelical Christian
Sir John Houghton was also a Welsh Nobel Prize Winner and a key figure in the creation of the IPCC’s first, second, and third assessments. This may surprise some, but his deeply held Evangelical Christian faith anchored his work and fueled his decades-long commitment to solving the climate emergency.
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Hear the Call: Climate Action Now
*This blog was original shared by Dayenu, A Jewish Call to Climate Action Dayenu leaders kicked off a month of action, in concert with the celebration of the Jewish new year, with the call of the shofar in Maine, Milwaukee, Boston, and New York. Undeterred by rain in Boston, Jewish climate organizers and allies gathered…
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Presbyterian Hunger Program Offers New Resource on Environmental Justice and Dismantling Structural Racism
The latest issue of the Presbyterian Hunger Program’s quarterly journal, the PHP Post, focuses entirely on dismantling structural racism, including the impacts and solutions to issues like environmental racism, climate change, and more.
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The Moment Is Now to Take Faithful Action for Climate Solutions
The urgency of the climate situation is ever more present, but we still need more people to raise their voices and take action to call for solutions. Everyone will experience – is experiencing – the impacts of climate change. So, what are we waiting for?
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Ready for the Storm: Building Faithful Climate Resilience
Chances are that your faith community has been involved in disaster response, whether as an impacted community or in service to others. But is your faith community preparing for the stronger intensity and frequency of disasters brought on by climate change? In our last episode of Let’s Talk Climate, we discussed how to build resilience…
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Matot-Masei: The Land is Our Mother
The claim that the land ultimately belongs to God and not to us, its temporary inhabitants, is meant to engender in us a consciousness of our own evanescence, a recognition that we are but visitors on this earth. Out of this consciousness we might grow into right relationship with the land and our fellow human…
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Climate Change IS a Concern for Faith Communities in North Carolina
A successful Greening Our Faith Communities Summit was held May 20 – 21 and functioned as a call to action and a positive source of resources and examples for what faithful climate action might look like in North Carolina. The event was organized by GreenFaith and Clean Air Carolina, with support from ecoAmerica and Blessed Tomorrow, Good Solar, MeckMIN, and…
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Individual Climate Action Matters: Inspiring Solutions at Scale By Doing Our Part
Individual action matters and builds momentum for systemic change that will address climate change. This was the topic of discussion on our latest Blessed Tomorrow Let’s Talk Climate episode, “Sacred Home: Creating Shelter, Building Resilience, and Living Carbon Neutral”. We were joined by the Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll, founder and CEO of Green The Church,…
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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Congregational Support for Eco-Grief
Faith communities have a complicated history when it comes to mental health and wholeness. In some ways, faith communities have failed by ignoring mental health challenges that are present within our communities and among clergy people. Oftentimes the stigma that has been placed upon the shoulders of those who are experiencing a variety of temporary…
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Join Us: National Faith and Climate Forum at ACLS 2021
Coming out of a year of multiple crises and a decisive election, 2021 is our moment to forge a path forward to a stable climate starting with ambitious American leadership on solutions. The American Climate Leadership Summit (ACLS 2021), celebrating its 10th year, will bring game-changing future-shaping ideas and a diversity of leaders together to…