00:19:43 Henry Huntington: Dena'ina land in Eagle River, Alaska 00:19:51 David Gagne: Dave Gagne from Minneapolis, MN - Traditional Anishinabe and Dakota land 00:19:51 Ted Steege: Ted & Eva Steege, College Park, MD 00:19:58 Jed Lindholm: Jed Lindholm, Sterling, MA 00:19:59 Marilyn Matevia: Erie land in Cleveland OH 00:20:02 Mary Halaney: Triumphant Love Lutheran Church in Austin Texas 00:20:09 Kim Winchell: Kim Winchell, Deacon from Michigan - land of the Ojibwa and Chippewa. 00:20:09 Phoebe Morad (she/her) - Lutherans Restoring Creation: https://lutheransrestoringcreation.org/event/doctrine-of-discoverys-role-in-climate-injustice/ 00:20:18 John-Otto Liljenstolpe: John-Otto Liljenstolpe on the land of the Duwamish People, Lynnwood WA a little north of Seattle 00:20:23 Gabriel Morgan: Tampa, FL, Tocobaga 00:20:26 Pat Almonrode: NYC (Lenappe land) 00:20:33 Mary Halaney: Tonkawa, Lipan Apache people 00:20:42 Katrina Martich (she/her): Katrina in Spokane, WA, where the Spokane people have lived and cared for the land and river since time immemorial. 00:20:43 Baird Linke: Chagrin Falls, OH on Erie, Mississagua, and Kaskaskia land 00:20:49 Wilbur Holz: Rapid City, South Dakota Home of the Oceti Sakowin, the seven council fires of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, also Northern Cheyenne 00:21:02 Cindy Gross: Cindy Gross, St. Louis, MO 00:21:03 Dixie's iPad: Dixie Hanson in LA, California 00:21:24 Eleanor: Eleanor Tunney South Windsor CT 00:21:27 Sheryl Mehrhoff: Sheryl & Arthur Mehrhoff, Columbia, MO. Osage & Missouria people. 00:21:40 Dn Phyllis (she, her): Phyllis Cox, Greenville, VA 00:21:42 Lisa Brenskelle: LIsa Brenskelle, HOuston, TX 00:22:25 Pat Almonrode: Yay Heather! 00:22:49 Lawrence Ryan: Larry and Debbie Ryan from the land of the Pocomoke and Wicomico and Nanticoke Indian tribes on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that is also part of the Maryland coastal bays and Chesapeake bay watersheds 00:23:56 Sr. Jessica Zimmerle (she/her): Sister Jessica Zimmerle from Duwamish land in Seattle, WA 00:24:11 Aurelio Ramirez, MassArt (he/him): Aurelio Ramirez, Boston, MA 00:24:35 Noni Strand: Noni Strand, Olathe, KS 00:26:10 Robert Errett (He/Him): Bob Errett...He/Him...Greensburg, PA...Land of the Edina, Hopewell, Monongahela, Osage, Delaware, Shawnee and Seneca/Cuyoga peoples. 00:31:14 Sharon Samoska: From Waterbury, CT. 00:32:27 Sharon Samoska: Not only do we hear God if God is a good God as people say would not let the bad happen and if God does, then God has decided it must happen. Or those who feel this is like Sodom and Gomorrah and we have done so much wrong, we deserve the wrath that will come. 00:32:35 Wilbur Holz: For example heard in conversation, if CO2 rises God has it so that trees will grow faster and deal with the CO2 00:36:03 Gabriel Morgan: For me, non-action doesn't mean doing nothing or taking no responsibility, as I read it. The possibility of an uninhabitable earth remains factually true regardless. Yet the only action that can actually change the situation, though, is God's action. That's the message of the reformation: salvation by the grace of God alone through Christ. Our anxious striving doesn't work or ultimately help. Effective change starts from the sustainable and hearty root of trust in God's action and Word. There is a parallel teaching in the Tao Te Ching; water does nothing and yet cuts canyons through mountains. 00:39:21 Lawrence Ryan: I feel that if we can spend multiple millions of dollars to fly a spacecraft into an asteroid as an experiment to see if we can have the agency to avoid a catastrophic impact of an asteroid with earth , then we can do all the things we know how to avoid warming our planet by dumping greenhouse gasses into our atmosphere. God gives us the will and the knowledge to do what is needed to Love our neighbors now and into the future. 00:41:46 Sharon Samoska: Is the prevailing feeling which I hear locally--the negative words are causing their ability to talk, to feel, to hope, to fail them. Is the fact that we hear blame continually placed on those of the past that we are to solve and people feel it is impossible to do that? A Jewish relative of mine says if Jesus was who he claimed to be, he would not the bad happen at all. 00:48:09 Baird Linke: Thanks so much, Paul! 00:49:10 Thor Olson, Bothell, WA: How would you characterize the challenges we will face over the next 5 years? 00:49:53 Sharon Samoska: This sharing of bucking the establishment is so much what I see. How do you fight a local government that sees only what can they put on a piece of property to make money and more money, and clear cut it, and destroy every tree and portion of wildlife and flora and fauna, and never consider the cost of the environment and human life is causing a loss that is beyond the measurement of money being brought in for taxes and the shaky promise of jobs--you can not financially measure. How do we bring this point across? 00:52:55 John-Otto Liljenstolpe: To what extent do you think, Paul, is the Church's mission for healing the creation compatible with America's economic system? Do you think our mission involves working for an alternative system? Can you describe what that might be a little bit? 00:53:38 Krehl Stringer: Larry Rasmussen (Bonhoeffer scholar and eco-theologian) has written several books along the lines of DB’s “this-worldly Christianity. 00:53:57 Krehl Stringer: John Cobb (process theologian) has commented that GDP has no measure of ecological wellbeing. 00:56:54 John-Otto Liljenstolpe: Phoebe, Catholics in the United States and elsewhere are working to implement Ladato Si. Do you know any where in the United States are working with them on the basis of this Papal statement? 00:57:10 Mark Carlson: Larry Rasmussen is PLTS Founders Day speaker Nov. 3, 2022. 5:30 pm PST in person, 6 pm online. www.plts.edu 00:59:39 Krehl Stringer: I'd suggest (beyond Tikkun Olam) is that the incarnation puts God in complete solidarity with Creation, particularly in bringing to the cross hope of global healing beyond the groanings and sins of the world. 01:01:48 Sharon Samoska: People are so numb, or they do not see what the reality at their doorstep is conveying. Does it seen there is a strong faction of folks who if they are comfortable, they don't want to or can not see? How do we turn the tide to lead to the understanding God is magnificent in giving us tools to use for the better of this world, for the protection of creation, and live our faith? Do we need to really be more vocal on your faith comes with responsibility that you want to accept? 01:03:05 Mark Carlson: A primary arena for our own individual values and action and donations the next 5-6 is the General Election. You know who and where you are. My California nickels and dimes are going to Florida, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, Kansas, Wisconsin for example. And as a church we support voting rights and access. 01:03:43 Thor Olson, Bothell, WA: Recommend this book as it details the fragility of the current global system and how it is breaking down. https://www.amazon.com/End-World-Just-Beginning-Globalization/dp/006323047X/ 01:03:48 Heather, occupied Wabanaki Confederacy land/Portland, ME: Third Act's faith group tweeted about this conversation earlier today! :-) 01:05:23 Lisa Brenskelle: Note that IPL is holding an online texting event (i..e you don't use your personal phone) to get out the faith-based environmental vote in key states. They are looking for volunteers. I"d be happy to hook anyone up who wants to participate. 01:05:26 Thor Olson, Bothell, WA: Paul, what is your opinion on the Pakistan Floods and how they are in effect paying the price of climate change disproportionate to their contribution? 01:07:23 Pat Almonrode: @Lisa Brenskelle, those texting platforms are great. I'd recommend everyone check the IPL program out. Thanks for mentioning, Lisa! 01:07:52 Mark Carlson: A member of St. John's Sacramento on Sunday, who goes to a different service and I rarely see, reminded me that he is VP of Portico (Bd of Pensions) and speaks to Jeff Thiemann almost weekly. Some of saw the Dilbert cartoon, and the buzz created, who trashes ESG investment as a colicky baby with firehose diarrhea. I will at least take some solace that my Portico account has been Social Purpose since their beginning, although I am afraid to look right now. 01:07:55 Lisa Brenskelle: Note that the texting event is coming up on Oct. 5, as I recall. 01:09:05 Sharon Samoska: I find as I speak at City meetings in support of the environment that folks in the public are supportive and approving, while the officials tend to show little emotion. Is this the root of the problem locally, we have to change the focus on following the party and the money trail? If so, it seems we have to so much more emphasize Creation to them, yet it must be in a positive way and not a mode of negativity--that is a challenge for sure? We hear we must separate religion and politics, yet our country has been founded on the religious principles... 01:09:18 Mark Carlson: What key, foundational, linchpin, cornerstone word is absent from the 1993 Caring for Creation social statement, but infuses most everything. I will not give you the answer here, read it and wonder. The 1972 LCA social statement was terrific and ahead of its time. 01:11:47 Pat Almonrode: Thank you for that, Ted! 01:12:03 Heather, occupied Wabanaki Confederacy land/Portland, ME: For next month's call: https://lutheransrestoringcreation.org/event/doctrine-of-discoverys-role-in-climate-injustice/ 01:12:40 Thor Olson, Bothell, WA: Russia was the source of most of the Nickel & Cobalt in Lithium ion batteries. This chemistry will solve this as well as costing about 1/5 and potentially being 5 times more powerful per weight. https://news.mit.edu/2022/aluminum-sulfur-battery-0824 01:12:46 Kim’s iPhone: Ok, I will chime in briefly - special greetings to Paul, Phoebe, Pat A, and Krehl 😊❤️ I would add to all of this wonderful discussion, a couple of thoughts… a Franciscan approach of “doing what is mine to do,” … picking up on Paul’s early mention of “vocation.” Also, back when the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened (March ‘89)… I was grieved to my core (having been born in Alaska). I knew I could not go to Alaska and clean it up… but there were things before me - in my sphere of influence - that I could do. But! I would add, too, the importance of HOPE, and of joining with others. A touchstone for me is a short piece by poet Adrienne Rich … She wrote: “My heart is moved by all I cannot save, so much has been destroyed. I have to cast my lot with those, who, age after age, perversely , with no extraordinary power… reconstitute the world.” 01:13:56 Pat Almonrode: If interested - and of "a certain age" (60+) - please check out thirdact.org/faith. Fighting for the climate AND our democracy (you know, the easy stuff …).