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During the season of Lent (or any other time of introspection), share these resources with your Bible Study group, Worship ...
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AFFIRM: Personally, with your church council, or entire synod, review our ELCA's 1993 call to action and commit to engaging in ...
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What Hope Is There Unless We Address Our Consumption? - Tom Mundah reflects on the inequality of wealth. Care for Creation ...
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We are grateful for the work of Faith Action Team with Citizens' Climate Lobby and eager to share that a ...
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Love the Neighborhood As Yourself! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on bringing the human economy into consonance with the Great Economy. Care ...
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Watch this message from our churchwide leaders and fellow members across the country who recognize the tough, uncomfortable work of ...
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Sabbath Fufillment – Tom Mundahl reflects on striving to enable all members of creation to be what God intended them ...
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Thanks to Wilbur Holz in Rapid City, SD for sharing this example and resource: Trex https://www.trex.com/ the decking company has ...
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As institutions and individuals we have a hard time understanding and being in control of how our money is used ...
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We need a "conversion to Earth!" - Leah Schade reflects on lives being changed. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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EmPOWER your community to communicate with who manages your energy! Hear from Emilie Bouvier, Director of Organizing in the Minneapolis ...
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NOW. - Tom Martin reflects on the prophets and Jesus calling us to ecojustice "today." Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
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A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...
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Put on a youth program about Trash! How well do you know your trash? How can your youth group become ...
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The increasingly pressing situation of Planet Earth poses urgent ethical questions for Christians. But, as Cynthia Moe-Lobeda argues, the future ...
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The Beginning of Abundance Is at the End of Scarcity - Drew Tucker reflects on how this week’s readings relate ...
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Luther’s continued efforts to exist sustainably are aimed at decreasing campus consumption and lowering costs for basic campus resources such ...
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A grant from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources allowed Luther College and the Decorah Raptor Resource Project to build ...
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This timeless series, filmed in high definition, takes Martin Luther´s breakthrough understanding of Justification and Vocation and explodes it across ...
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Theological background and information on water stewardship globally, nationally, and locally. Under the “Find Your Watershed” section of the Factsheet ...
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Teaching Environmental Ethics: Feeding “The Good Wolf” by Dr. Leah D. Schade ...
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Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril Edited by Lisa Dahill and James Martin-Schramm   The conviction at ...
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This regional organization shares the experts in their midst with the wider audience online across the globe. Check out the ...
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by Terra Schwerin Rowe Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation inspired profound theological, ecclesial, economic, and social transformations. But ...
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Back in the summer of 2018 hundreds of youth and group leaders visited our Lutherans Restoring Creation space in the ...
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In 2017, Augsburg University launched initiatives to build capacity for integrating environmental sustainability across all curricular, co-curricular, and operational aspects ...
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Through Green Thread, Capital University's environmental sustainability platform, innovative and efficient solutions are brought to life. Green Thread helps employees ...
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A recent community tree planting event was a huge success. More than 60 students, faculty, and staff helped plant trees ...
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A story in the Star Tribune newspaper highlights how St. Olaf College's 350 acres of natural lands not only serve ...
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Gettysburg College has been pursuing sustainable decision making for over three decades. As the world's environmental issues grow more and ...
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Muhlenberg College, Luther College, Wartburg College, Wittenberg College, and Pacific Lutheran University were all recently included in the Sierra Club's ...
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by Mark Brocker As a young Norwegian Lutheran teenager in rural Wisconsin, Brocker lay awake one night worrying whether he ...
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Edited by Graham Buxton and Norman Habel Forward by David Rhoads With contributions by David Rhoads, Paul Santmire, Celia-Diane-Drummond, Heather ...
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Gettysburg College has been home to successful recycling programs since the early 1980s. Since then, the College has won national ...
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The majority of people have probably heard of the 3R's of Sustainable Living:  Reduce, reuse, recycle. Wartburg College has added ...
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Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 7 p.m. – Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m.    Cramer Retreat Center  1800 Meadow Edge Lane  ...
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Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2018 ...
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•Opening Prayer: Gracious God, we have gathered here from many places. Thank you for safe travels. Bless this time together. Amen. •Introductory discussion: ...
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GreenFaith has helped pull together leaders from various religions across the globe to recognize our common concern for the planet ...
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There is plenty of information "out there" on how we can make steps to live a life with less of ...
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We turned an empty lot in L.A. into an edible sanctuary. by Anna Woofenden (shared from Christian Century magazine) When I moved ...
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As many faith-based organizations are struggling with their place in relation to people's daily lives, so does the Evangelical Lutheran ...
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The purpose of this kit is to enable you to have a basic program and organization to function as a ...
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Guidelines for Ecologically Responsible Events Prepared by Pilgrims Caring for Creation Pilgrim Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN in response to ...
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While caring for the environment can feel overwhelming, it’s when we stand together, each doing our part, that we find ...
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Let us live into a vision of sustainability for the whole Earth community. - Leah Schade reflects on the Good ...
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2016 Churchwide Assembly Passes Memorial To Move Towards A Responsible Energy Future During the months leading up to the August ...
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The general call to to action is simply: "Stay Home".   However, many can't heed that call, even if they wanted ...
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by Sarah Webb, Iowa Interfaith Power & Light First Lutheran in Decorah signed the Paris Pledge, joining other congregations across ...
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The fruit of one of our Connections Calls, we thank our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD ...
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How can we allow the religion of consumption to threaten God’s future? – Tom Mundahl reflects on turning from darkness to ...
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What tools can churches and individual members bring to the table to achieve 50% Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by ...
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Thanks to our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD via Charlie Bailey. If you have updates or ...
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Thanks to our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD via Charlie Bailey. If you have updates or ...
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July 2021 Connections Call Recording & Related Resources: Hear as Sarah & Brandon Bowers describe their methods of raising animals ...
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