Recordings and supporting documents from monthly Connections Calls for Lutherans Restoring Creation (see below!)
Join our monthly call to hear from “Green Shepherds” across the country on a variety of topics in our Connections Calls. Be sure to join our Good Green News email list to get the call-in details (add us to your address book so they don’t end up in spam). To join our email list, click here!
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Connections Calls (video playlist)
https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=playlist&list=PLFPMTinJ7FKneoOobuRaoX6qxleOzH91Z&layout=gallery ...
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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 ...
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Perspectives on Animals as Food
July 2021 Connections Call Recording & Related Resources: Hear as Sarah & Brandon Bowers describe their methods of raising animals ...
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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 ...
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Interview with Bishop Eaton
Bishop Elizabeth Eaton offered the sermon for our Good Shepherd Sunday service in celebration of Earth Day 2021. As the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Native Land Acknowledgment: Processes to Heal, Steps to Restore
Acknowledging the Indigenous peoples on whose land our churches sit has the potential to profoundly shift our relationship with the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Food – Faith – Farming
Since there are so many members of our ELCA community who live in agricultural areas and we all depend on ...
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50 Covenants for 50 Years of Earth Day
Some Lutherans Restoring Creation have decided to take on a challenge of inviting at least 50 Congregations in their synod ...
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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 ...
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Connections Call: What is Our Response?
As part of our Connections Calls, we get to hear feedback from representatives who work in various expressions of the ...
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Connections Call: Gifts of restoration for YOU too!
On a recent Connections Call we asked folks to share some readings and resources that give them strength. Here are ...
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Creation Care Ambassador Program
The training and networking opportunities developed between the ELCA and ecoAmerica's Blessed Tomorrow have become even more accessible! There is ...
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