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Second Sunday of Easter in Year B (Ormseth18)
“How very good and pleasant it is when kindred live together in unity!” - Dennis Ormseth reflects on community, trinity, and ...
Know trash? No trash! Try this youth program!
Put on a youth program about Trash! How well do you know your trash? How can your youth group become ...
Wartburg College REUSED Store
The Wartburg College REUSED store is a way for students, faculty, and staff to participate in sustainability on campus. It ...
Seventh Sunday of Easter in Year C (Mundahl13)
Sabbath Fufillment – Tom Mundahl reflects on striving to enable all members of creation to be what God intended them ...
This is Church and You Are Needed Inside & Out
Watch this message from our churchwide leaders and fellow members across the country who recognize the tough, uncomfortable work of ...
All Earth is Waiting – An Advent Retreat (November 2018)
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018 7 p.m. – Saturday, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. Cramer Retreat Center 1800 Meadow Edge Lane ...
Sunday July 31 – August 6 in Year A (Retzlaff23)
A Prayer in the Anthropocene - Carmen Retzlaff reflects on food scarcity and food sovereignty. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
Sunday June 26 – July 2 in Year C (Ormseth13)
Love the Neighborhood As Yourself! – Dennis Ormseth reflects on bringing the human economy into consonance with the Great Economy. Care ...
EarthBound video series – Now Available Streaming!
This timeless series, filmed in high definition, takes Martin Luther´s breakthrough understanding of Justification and Vocation and explodes it across ...
What Can We Do?
AFFIRM: Personally, with your church council, or entire synod, review our ELCA's 1993 call to action and commit to engaging in ...
Augsburg Awarded $475,000 to Help Infuse Sustainability Into All Facets of College Life (2017)
In 2017, Augsburg University launched initiatives to build capacity for integrating environmental sustainability across all curricular, co-curricular, and operational aspects ...
Interfaith Environmental Network of Houston
This regional organization shares the experts in their midst with the wider audience online across the globe. Check out the ...
Transportation: “On the Way” Bible Study
•Opening Prayer: Gracious God, we have gathered here from many places. Thank you for safe travels. Bless this time together. Amen. •Introductory discussion: ...
Ways to Integrate Creation Care in your Lenten Practices
During the season of Lent (or any other time of introspection), share these resources with your Bible Study group, Worship ...
Sunday July 3 – 9 in Year C (Ormseth13)
Down-to-Earth Benefits for the Entire Community – Dennis Ormseth reflects on stepping out beyond the religious competition to curry God's favor and ...
Perspectives on Animals as Food
July 2021 Connections Call Recording & Related Resources: Hear as Sarah & Brandon Bowers describe their methods of raising animals ...
Sunday September 4 – 10 in Year C (Saler13)
Following Jesus into Earth: A New Reformation? - Robert Saler reflects on the implications of theological transformation. Care for Creation ...
Sunday June 5-11 in Year B (Ormseth12)
Life Outside the Garden of Goodness - Dennis Ormseth reflects on overcoming the hostilities that divide us. Care for Creation ...
Sunday September 18-24 in Year A (Ormseth11)
Acceptance in an Economy of Grace - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the workers in the vineyard. Care for Creation Commentary on ...
Second Sunday after Epiphany in Year C (Ormseth13)
All Will Indeed Be Well - Dennis Ormseth reflects on Wisdom as the careful husbanding of resources for the protection, enhancement, ...
A Spectrum of Tools to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Call-9/28/21)
What tools can churches and individual members bring to the table to achieve 50% Reduction in Greenhouse Gas Emissions by ...
2016 Churchwide Assembly Passes Memorial To Move Towards A Responsible Energy Future
2016 Churchwide Assembly Passes Memorial To Move Towards A Responsible Energy Future During the months leading up to the August ...
Coming Home To Earth
by Mark Brocker As a young Norwegian Lutheran teenager in rural Wisconsin, Brocker lay awake one night worrying whether he ...
So We Can Restore Creation
While caring for the environment can feel overwhelming, it’s when we stand together, each doing our part, that we find ...
Fourth Sunday of Easter in Year A (Schade14)
Living into a Vision of Sustainability for the Whole Earth Community. - Leah Schade reflects on the Good Shepherd. Care ...
Free Table at Augsburg University
Augsburg University has a "free" reuse table that is available to any student, staff, or faculty member in the Augsburg ...
Just Transitions Conversation (March 2021)
Listen in to our discussion with Ruth Ivory-Moore, ELCA’s Program Director, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility Focus: Just Transitions What ...
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
As institutions and individuals we have a hard time understanding and being in control of how our money is used ...
St. Olaf Natural Lands Play an Important Role in Conservation Efforts for Native Species
A story in the Star Tribune newspaper highlights how St. Olaf College's 350 acres of natural lands not only serve ...
Luther College and Raptor Resource Project Build Banding Station (2017)
A grant from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources allowed Luther College and the Decorah Raptor Resource Project to build ...
Capital University Utilizes “Green Thread” Environmental Sustainability Platform
Through Green Thread, Capital University's environmental sustainability platform, innovative and efficient solutions are brought to life. Green Thread helps employees ...
Waste Reduction Efforts for Luther College Move Out Take Shape (2016)
In an effort to reduce the waste associated with move-out this semester, Luther Sustainability has partnered with several Decorah-area organizations ...
Youth Gather and We All Grow!
Back in the summer of 2018 hundreds of youth and group leaders visited our Lutherans Restoring Creation space in the ...
Ideas for Reducing your Impact as a Church or Individually
The fruit of one of our Connections Calls, we thank our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD ...
Planning and Carrying Out Green Events
Guidelines for Ecologically Responsible Events Prepared by Pilgrims Caring for Creation Pilgrim Lutheran Church, St. Paul, MN in response to ...
Sunday Evening Conversations on Creation Continue… (July 29, 2018)
Christ the King Evangelical Lutheran Church invites you to a monthly environmental education web meeting series whose theme in 2018 ...
Stewarding the Gift of Water: ELCA Advocacy Fact Sheet
Theological background and information on water stewardship globally, nationally, and locally. Under the “Find Your Watershed” section of the Factsheet ...
Clothing Swap at California Lutheran University
California Lutheran University hosted a free clothing swap in conjunction with an art exhibit that examined the harmful effects of ...
Do we Stay Home and DO nothing?
The general call to to action is simply: "Stay Home". However, many can't heed that call, even if they wanted ...
Concordia College in Moorhead Hosts Successful Community Tree Planting Event (2017)
A recent community tree planting event was a huge success. More than 60 students, faculty, and staff helped plant trees ...
Living the Change: A Tool Connected to Many Faiths
GreenFaith has helped pull together leaders from various religions across the globe to recognize our common concern for the planet ...
Fourth Sunday of Lent in Year B (Mundahl12)
How can we allow the religion of consumption to threaten God’s future? – Tom Mundahl reflects on turning from darkness to ...
Sunday July 17-23 in Year B (Ormseth12)
Who Will Shepherd the Shepherdless? - Dennis Ormseth reflects on a way of life where vices have been transformed into economic ...
Featured School: Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Gettysburg College has been pursuing sustainable decision making for over three decades. As the world's environmental issues grow more and ...
First Sunday of Advent in Year B (Mundahl14)
Stay Alert with Hope; and Beware the Consumers of Christmas. - Tom Mundahl reflects on hope, watching, and serving. Care ...
Sunday July 31 – August 6 in Year C (Saler13)
Is Distance Our Security? - Robert Saler reflects on embracing interdependence joyfully. Care for Creation Commentary on the Revised Common ...
Sunday September 25 – October 1 in Year C (Mundahl13)
What Hope Is There Unless We Address Our Consumption? - Tom Mundah reflects on the inequality of wealth. Care for Creation ...
First Lutheran in Decorah Signs Paris Pledge
by Sarah Webb, Iowa Interfaith Power & Light First Lutheran in Decorah signed the Paris Pledge, joining other congregations across ...
Second Sunday of Easter in Year B (Ormseth15)
The Self-Giving of the Community is Rooted in the Self-Giving of the Creator. - Dennis Ormseth reflects on what it means ...
What Do We Know About Carbon Pricing and How is it Part of a Just Transition?
We are grateful for the work of Faith Action Team with Citizens' Climate Lobby and eager to share that a ...
Gettysburg College Offers Nationally Recognized Recycling Program
Gettysburg College has been home to successful recycling programs since the early 1980s. Since then, the College has won national ...
Booker Vance
Booker Vance is the Policy Outreach Coordinator for Elevate Energy. He is a native of Houston, TX. He attended Bethany ...
Third Sunday after Epiphany in Year C (Martin22)
NOW. - Tom Martin reflects on the prophets and Jesus calling us to ecojustice "today." Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress Press, 2013)
The increasingly pressing situation of Planet Earth poses urgent ethical questions for Christians. But, as Cynthia Moe-Lobeda argues, the future ...
Third Sunday of Easter in Year A (Schade14)
We Need a "Conversion to Earth!" - Leah Schade reflects on lives being changed. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
Impact Reduction: Reusable mesh produce bags
Thanks to our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD via Charlie Bailey. If you have updates or ...
Second Sunday of Christmas in Years A, B and C (Mundahl22)
A Time for Gathering – Tom Mundahl reflects on freeing all creatures to dwell in peace and mutual respect. Care for ...
Earth Ethics: A Case Method Approach (Orbis Books, 2015)
This valuable classroom resource explores a number of issues in social and environmental ethics and provides resources for engaging in ...
Toward a Better Worldliness: Ecology, Economy, and the Protestant Tradition
by Terra Schwerin Rowe Five hundred years ago the Protestant Reformation inspired profound theological, ecclesial, economic, and social transformations. But ...
Fourth Sunday of Easter (April 25) in Year B (Ormseth18)
All Creation Is Raised Up - Dennis Ormseth reflects on the Great Economy of the Good Shepherd. Care for Creation Commentary ...
Several ELCA Colleges Named in the Sierra Club’s Top “Cool Schools” List (2017)
Muhlenberg College, Luther College, Wartburg College, Wittenberg College, and Pacific Lutheran University were all recently included in the Sierra Club's ...
Impact Reduction: Reduce/eliminate junk mail.
Thanks to our friends from New Hope Lutheran Church in Columbia, MD via Charlie Bailey. If you have updates or ...
Day of Pentecost (May 23) in Year B (Mundahl21)
Practice Resurrection - Tom Mundahl reflects on the story told by how we live. Care for Creation Commentary on the ...
Congregational Covenant and Organizing Kit: An Overview
The purpose of this kit is to enable you to have a basic program and organization to function as a ...
Wind Power for Luther College
Luther’s continued efforts to exist sustainably are aimed at decreasing campus consumption and lowering costs for basic campus resources such ...
Growing a garden church from food scraps and compost
We turned an empty lot in L.A. into an edible sanctuary. by Anna Woofenden (shared from Christian Century magazine) When I moved ...
Valparaiso University shares tips about how to reuse plastic bags!
When one ton of plastic bags is reused or recycled, the energy equivalent of 11 barrels of oil is saved! ...
Plastic Recycling Example for Church work in the Community
Thanks to Wilbur Holz in Rapid City, SD for sharing this example and resource: Trex https://www.trex.com/ the decking company has ...
Teaching Environmental Ethics: Feeding “The Good Wolf”
Teaching Environmental Ethics: Feeding “The Good Wolf” by Dr. Leah D. Schade ...
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril
Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril Edited by Lisa Dahill and James Martin-Schramm The conviction at ...
Church Bulletin and Newsletter Input
There is plenty of information "out there" on how we can make steps to live a life with less of ...
Sunday November 6-12 in Year B (Tucker21)
The Beginning of Abundance Is at the End of Scarcity - Drew Tucker reflects on how this week’s readings relate ...
The Nature of Things: Rediscovering the Spiritual in God’s Creation
Edited by Graham Buxton and Norman Habel Forward by David Rhoads With contributions by David Rhoads, Paul Santmire, Celia-Diane-Drummond, Heather ...
What does church have to do with it?
As many faith-based organizations are struggling with their place in relation to people's daily lives, so does the Evangelical Lutheran ...
Battery Recycling
Finlandia University began a program to recycle batteries on campus. Battery Recycling bins have been placed around campus. The bins were ...
Wartburg College Offers A New Twist to the Common 3R’s of Sustainable Living
The majority of people have probably heard of the 3R's of Sustainable Living: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Wartburg College has added ...
Local Electric Cooperatives as Tools for Equity and Healing
EmPOWER your community to communicate with who manages your energy! Hear from Emilie Bouvier, Director of Organizing in the Minneapolis ...
Sunday September 25 – October 1 in Year B (Mundahl12)
To Stand Beholding - Tom Mundahl reflects on an alternative to our cravings and their resulting garbage. Care for Creation ...
Sowing the Seeds of Transformation (prayer)
Prayer for use during the March against Fossil Fuels: (September 17, 2023) or for any time such as this. Please ...