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Thank you for posting this discussion.

So much for that "have no other gods before Me" thing, I guess.

Thanks for putting this together!

Wonderful! Thank you.

I saw a community garden outside a Presbyterian Church. Community members could raise produce for their own homes. Anything extra went to the local food bank.

Very helpful and inspiring reflections. I'm preaching on "Doubting Thomas" on April 7 and MANY ideas you all shared will help me! Thanks. Steve from Congregational United Church of Christ, Greensboro, NC, where we have a Creation Justice Team.

What a crock

Thank you very much for making these resources available.

Thank you for open captioning.

Thank you for open captioning.

Thank you for open captioning!

Can y'all gimme just the points

Thank you for this ministry. What a fantastic resource!

Love the idea of reading scripture through an ecological lense. Thank you for this podcast!

At 12:10, is some exclusionary and demeaning dialogue. It's actually incredible. Whites are barely mentioned in this video; only mentioned 3 times in total. However, you constantly and repeatedly talk about black and indigenous people and "communities". Around 12:10, again, you talk about black and indigenous communities, and then tack on "white allies." You don't say they're in your community. No, nothing like that. You don't talk about whites as being in your group. They're part of the "other"-some other group that you don't include with you, because they're white. They're just "allies" at best. And what good are these allies? Well, you say that they can be educated. You speak down to them. I mean, seriously, if you don't see the problem here, then you truly, truly lack objectivity. It's not hard to see if you swap the races around, by saying "there's us white people, and then there are those blacks, who are the people us whites need to educate." It's amazing to me. Astounding. Incredible that you can't see this like I see this.

Another bad term: equity. The Bible is explicitly anti equity. Jesus flatly argued against equity. Matthew 25:29 NIV "For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them." - Jesus.

"BIPOC" is a racist and exclusionary term. It's used specifically to exclude whites and Asians and other groups. As far as I can tell, it was invented because "people of color" was found to include people you wanted to exclude, like some Asian people. Because in America, Asians typically are better off than even whites. So the term BIPOC was created to cut them out, along with any other groups you want, and only include black people and anyone deemed "indigenous." Of course, you get to decide who's ACTUALLY indigenous.

A friend of mine emailed me this wonderful video. I wrote this back to him: I watched it. A very good video. Gurus such as Amma, Meher Baba and Upasani Baba teach that ones internal nature affects external Nature. Once someone went to Swami Sivananda and went down a list of all things wrong with the world. When he was done he wanted to know from Sivananda what could be done. Sivananda said "Ramnam" (chanting God's Name). Of course he, like Amma, had many causes including the environment. We have to know our place. Ramakrishna said that problems were here before we arrived on Earth and problems will be here when we depart. Who are you, he asked, to think you can solve them? They are God's problems and it is His responsibility to solve them. Of course we should be active to solve those problems but such service is purifying us mainly. "Everything is accomplished by taking the Name of Ram" said Neem Karoli Baba. Ramana Maharshi said that the greatest help you can do to the world is Self Realization. We need to purify our consciousness and the best way to do that is through the God thought. When the youth are disturbed they become mentally ill. Mental illness is a huge problem among the young. Focusing on God through the Name will center them and give them values to live life that will create a healthy planet. Again, one's internal state directly impacts the Earth even if you're a hermit.

Linda McCoy (she)- Duwamish Native Lands - Seattle First Baptist Church greetings!

beautiful

Amazing work!

Excellent but she talks so fast, it is really difficult to understand all of it.

I live in Catawba County, where the Catawba Indigenous people and Cherokee once walked.

"We should be the barometers for society--and the thermometers--but we only operate as thermostats." - Rev. Michael Malcom

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For the first time in history, all of humanity is facing a common external enemy. This enemy is the climate. In the face of planetary danger, it is necessary to unite all people for the future of humanity. People are already ready to act, and as an example of this - International online forum "Global Crisis. We are People. We Want to Live". Look it up on TH-cam, it not only identifies problems but also suggests a way out!

Proactive measurements, knowledge is power. We all have our part. God is Able !

Excellent!

Well done, Neddy! CS Lewis defined "sin" as separation from God and he suggested that as humans distanced themselves from God, they also lost the powers to communicate with trees, animals, the wind, the water... He used this text to illustrate that point and like you, made the connection that the wind was a "being".

The good news is global warming is making the oceans great again -- and the fish are loving it. But no matter what John Kerry thinks he is doing -- it will make no difference ... th-cam.com/video/R9F8LSxR4Yo/w-d-xo.html&t

This was a terrific webinar. I am sharing this video with others in my church and community.

This was the most impactful webinar I've seen in a long time. All speakers were excellent.

1) By reflecting away 30% of ISR the albedo, which would not exist w/o the atmosphere, makes the earth cooler than it would be without the atmosphere like that reflective panel set on the dash. Remove the atmosphere/GHGs and the earth becomes much like the moon, a barren rock with a 0.1 albedo, 20% more kJ/h, hot^3 on the lit side, cold^3 on the dark. Nikolov, Kramm (U of AK) and UCLA Diviner mission all tacitly agree. 2) the GHG up/down welling, “trapping”/”back” radiating/delaying/intercepting, 100 % efficient, perpetual warming loop requires "extra" energy which according to RGHE theory it gets from 3) the terrestrial surface radiating that "extra" energy as a near ideal .95 emissivity black body which 4) it cannot do because of the non-radiative heat transfer processes of the contiguous atmospheric molecules. 1+2+3+4 = 0 Greenhouse Effect + 0 Greenhouse gas warming + 0 man caused climate change. All science backed up by experiment, the gold standard of classical science. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicholas-schroeder-55934820_climatechange-greenhouse-co2-activity-6749812735246254080-bc6K

Water vapor is the predominant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere and mostly maintains the planet’s temperature; however, as carbon dioxide, methane and other non-condensable greenhouse gases are added, this further amplifies the greenhouse effect and raises temperatures further. Besides increasing evaporation rates, the warmer air is able to hold additional water vapor (a condensable greenhouse gas). Warmer temperatures, also, ramps up the rate at which permafrost and oceanic hydrates melt, thus releasing more and more ‘methane’. This further amplifies the greenhouse effect and increases temperatures that again, in turn, causes increased levels of evaporation and melting. The even warmer atmosphere can now hold even more water vapor, which, of course, is a greenhouse gas... repeat... repeat... www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/climatesciencenarratives/its-water-vapor-not-the-co2.html Note: To read about what happens when CO2 levels are decreased to abnormally low levels, search: ‘Snowball Earth + cyanobacteria’ Related links: samslair.blogspot.com/2018/10/ancient-greenhouse-gases-givers-and.html?m=1 samslair.blogspot.com/search?q=Snowball+earth+cyanobacteria+&m=1

Great speech! Thank you for your leadership.

Hola, soy Shantha Ready Alonso, Directora Ejecutiva de “Creation Justice Ministries” ( los Ministerios de Justicia de la Creación). Quiero hablarte sobre la urgencia de estos tiempos. Es el momento de abordar nuestra emergencia climática. Es por eso que el tema de este Domingo Día de la Tierra 2020 en la comunidad Creation Justice proviene del sermón de Martin Luther King sobre la feroz urgencia del ahora. Con la llegada de COVID-19 y la necesidad de quedarnos en casa, este tema de "la feroz urgencia del ahora" se siente paradójico. Por un lado, nos sentimos atascados; no podemos ir a ningún lado Por otro lado, COVID-19 está exponiendo los desequilibrios en la creación de Dios, las desigualdades en nuestras comunidades y la urgente necesidad de interrumpir los negocios habituales. A menos que terminemos con el racismo ambiental con una urgencia feroz, Las enfermedades como el COVID-19 causarán estragos en los cuerpos que han soportado toda una vida de injusticia y desigual por la contaminación. Está claro que enfermedades como el coronavirus se volverán más comunes a menos que protejamos la biodiversidad con una urgencia feroz. Propuestas como la conservación de al menos el 30 por ciento de la naturaleza para 2030, que sonaban idealistas para muchos.Ahora, de depende somos más los que entendemos qué proteger la creación de Dios es necesario para nuestra supervivencia colectiva. Mientras mucho esta cerrado, los viejos sistemas están siendo expuestos más que nunca. Y tal vez en esa apertura, puede ocurrir una ruptura divina: un momento kairos para la creación de Dios. En el Nuevo Testamento, la palabra griega kairos significa tiempo, pero este sentido del tiempo es diferente al paso de los minutos, que los griegos llaman cronos. En el Evangelio de Juan, el sentido de la palabra griega kairos se relaciona con la venida de Jesús, en la plenitud de los tiempos, con las acciones correctas en el momento correcto. Como cristianos, estamos celebrando la temporada de Pascua. Abrazar la alegría de Pascua significa vivir en agradecimiento por la acción salvadora de Jesús en nuestro mundo y escuchar nuestro llamado a participar en la misión de Dios de renovar la Tierra. Que cada uno pueda encontrar formas de participar en este momento kairos para la creación de Dios y la divinidad entre en nuestro roto mundo.

"Creation Justice Ministries' worship, education, and action materials are excellent. They are practical for sharing concise, timely resources and information about Creation Care with my congregation in ways I feel inspired to do, but can't find the right words to convey it in English (considering Spanish is my first language). I appreciate their messages so much, that I'd like to make more of their materials available in Spanish, to be able to share it with our PC(USA) congregations in Puerto Rico & Cuba. Also to be able to share it with my own family and other faith communities in Texas, México and beyond." ~Daniela Ochoa Gonzalez

Daniela - Here is the video script. Gracias por traducirlo. :-) Hi, I’m Shantha Ready Alonso, Executive Director of Creation Justice Ministries. I want to talk with you about the urgency of this time. The time is now to address our climate emergency. That is why the Creation Justice community’s 2020 Earth Day Sunday theme comes from Martin Luther King’s preaching on The Fierce Urgency of Now. With the arrival of COVID-19 and the need to shelter in place, this “fierce urgency of now” theme feels paradoxical. On one hand, we feel stuck; we can’t go anywhere. On the other hand, COVID-19 is exposing the imbalances in God’s creation, the inequities in our communities, and the urgent need to interrupt business-as-usual. Unless we END environmental racism with a fierce urgency, diseases like COVID-19 will wreak havoc upon bodies that have borne a lifelong unjust and unequal burden of pollution. It’s clear diseases like coronavirus will become more common unless we protect biodiversity with a fierce urgency. Proposals such as conserving at least 30 percent of nature by 2030 once sounded idealistic to many. Now, more of us suddenly understand why protecting God’s creation is necessary for our collective survival. While much is shut down, old systems are being broken open. And perhaps in that opening, a divine in-breaking can happen: a kairos moment for God’s creation. In the New Testament, the Greek word kairos means time, but this sense of time is different than the passing of minutes, which the Greeks call chronos. In the Gospel of John, the sense of the Greek word kairos related to the coming of Jesus, in the fullness of time, with the right actions coming at the right time. As Christians, we are celebrating the Easter season. Embracing Easter joy means living in gratitude for the saving action of Jesus in our world, and listening for our call to participate in God’s mission to renew the Earth. May we each find ways to participate in this kairos moment for God’s creation, and the divine in-breaking into our broken world.

Great video. Can you add your script here, please? I would like to translate it into Spanish, thanks!

Bishop Dan Edwards trafficked my son to Donna Groover and Beth West of Georgia, slandered me to parishioners, betrayed my confidence and broke church laws. The fact that he thinks the earth is worth protecting is laughable, considering he abuses the hell out of human beings and sells them to line his own pockets. The church has refused to investigate, despite (among other things) my reporting the doctor he sold my son to to the Georgia Composite Medical Board for drugging me (yes, he had the doctor he sold my son to also drug me. Arrogant prick. That's so illegal. I guess he thought I'd always be too drugged up to out him as the monster that he is.) I wonder why the church won't inve$tigate? It'$ truly a my$tery.

Note the information at the end of this video that informs us that organic farming pollutes the land rivers and groundwater less. Self evident but worth repeating. Strong motivator for changed behavior in this life changing season of Easter. Ed

Grateful for your ministry, Warren!