Recordings and supporting documents from monthly Connections Calls for Lutherans Restoring Creation (below). For upcoming Zoom gatherings go to our Upcoming Events page.
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Connections Call: Responding to Climate Disaster
Rev. Matthew Zemanick, Program Director, Lutheran Disaster Response Initiatives joined us to consider all the ways we can “lend a ...
Taking Time: The Significance of Sabbath in Creation Care
Climate change is a tangled problem and responding to it is an issue of economics and physics, politics and infrastructure ...
Shame, Guilt, Empathy, Lament… Tools or Toxins?
In our work, we often “try not to shame” people to change their ways and encourage just infrastructure change. We ...
Pathways to Pollination
In March of 2023, ELCA churches across Northeastern Minnesota's EcoFaith Network shared inspiration and resources regarding their teams' exciting new ...
Lead-Free Superhero!
The Lead-Free Superhero! We were honored to have Aiden and Deanna Branch share their experience growing the Coalition on Lead ...
FACT: The Earth is Good – January ’23 Homecoming
FACT: The Earth is Good! (Click) Get the Good News in less than 2 minutes here and share with someone ...
Resilience as Part of Disaster Response
Thanks to Avery Davis Lamb (Creation Justice Ministries) who shared an overview of the "Faithful Resilience" resource during our Connections Call ...
Doctrine of Discovery’s Role in Climate Injustice
The ELCA has been working to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery. As individuals and institutions continue to reconcile and repair ...
Author, H. Paul Santmire – Connections Call (Sept. 27, 2022)
Thank you to theologian and fellow eco-activist, H. Paul Santmire, who joined the Lutherans Restoring Creation network to offer hope ...
Rural and Small Town Conversations re: Creation Care
On June 26, 2022 our Connections Call considered how conversations about Creation Care in Rural & Small Town America are ...
Amending the Christian Story: Conversation with Ron Rude (June 2022)
Thanks to Pastor Zach Parris (AKA- The Vinyl Preacher) for welcoming us in to conversation with Pastor Ron Rude about his ...
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 ...
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 ...
Where are we off to in ’22 (Dec. 2021 Connections Call)
Chat Log to download For more information regarding the specific materials mentioned during this call also check out this post ...
Gratitude Connections Call (Nov. 2021)
We thank you for being a part of our Creation Care Ministry! Please listen to our gathering of gratitude below ...
Who Are the People in your “Neighborhood”?
Connections Call conversation from October 26, 2021 about all the people in our web of creation care. Listen in to ...
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 ...
Connections Calls (video playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLFPMTinJ7FKneoOobuRaoX6qxleOzH91Z&layout=gallery ...
Advocating and Acting for Reducing Greenhouse Gases (Call-8/17/21)
A Call to Advocate and Act for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases for the Health of All Thanks to Pastor Jonathan ...
Perspectives on Animals as Food
July 2021 Connections Call Recording & Related Resources: Hear as Sarah & Brandon Bowers describe their methods of raising animals ...
Connections Calls: Ways of Knowing – Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge & Christian Faith
Connections Call from Wednesday, June 23, 2021 Focus: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and Christian Faith: How Can Various Ways of Knowing ...
Interview with Bishop Eaton
Bishop Elizabeth Eaton offered the sermon for our Good Shepherd Sunday service in celebration of Earth Day 2021. As the ...
Connections Call: How Church Soil Can Feed the Community
This call (video below) happened on May 18, 2021 Focus: How Church Soil Can Feed the Community We were excited ...
Intro Webinar for Congregations Making a Covenant with Creation
"Creation Care" is more than just "being green." Integrating a lens of eco-justice is not only critical in order to ...
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 ...
Connections Call: January 2021, Rev. Alyssa Mazzei, Creation Care in the traditional church
Creation Care in the traditional church Hear from Rev. Alyssa Mazzei (First Lutheran in Springfield, Ohio), as she shares her ...
Native Land Acknowledgment: Processes to Heal, Steps to Restore
As we live, work, and worship in the land that is now called the United States, Lutherans Restoring Creation recognizes ...
How do you bring up climate change in church?
There are so many examples from our brothers and sisters across the nation sharing exciting and authentic ways of conversing ...
Finding Ways to Work Alongside Grief and Anguish
Thanks to all who joined the August 2020 Connections Call to share experiences with and resources on how to keep ...
How Do We Truly Commit to the Earth Charter?
During the 2019 Churchwide Assembly the ELCA voted to officially sign onto the principals of the Earth Charter. How does ...
