Posts tagged Climate Change
Lutherans Restoring Creation host conversation with H. Paul Santmire
Lutherans Restoring Creation host conversation with H. Paul Santmire

Lutherans Restoring Creation will host a conversation with eco-theologian H. Paul Santmire regarding his newest book, EcoActivist Testament. September 27th, 2022, 5pm MST/PDT, 5pm MDT. Click here for more info, and click here to register.

In 1993, Paul was a main contributor to the ELCA's initial Social Statement regarding the Care of Creation.
Now we have a Social Message drafted for our review and comment: Earth's Climate Crisis. Please be sure to offer dedicated time in your church community to read and submit comments before 12/2/2022.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardClimate Change, Lutherans Restoring CreationComment
Lutherans Restoring Creation: September, 2022 Good Green News
Lutherans Restoring Creation: September, 2022 Good Green News

Lutherans Restoring Creation shares their September, 2022 Good Green News, which contains follows up on the Churchwide Assembly vote to take dedicated action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, promising the infrastructure to help us all work for a Just Transition to less harmful energy production and consumption.

View the newsletter here, as well as stories and resources that are shared in their variety of events and local ministries.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardLutherans Restoring Creation, Climate ChangeComment
Creation Care Investments in Inflation Reduction Act
Creation Care Investments in Inflation Reduction Act

After many months of deliberation, Congress has passed and President Biden has signed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a federal spending bill that was heralded as a crucial step towards finding solutions to the climate crisis by making the largest federal investment ever in clean energy technologies. This investment comes as movement toward the United States fulfilling its pledge, under the Paris Climate Agreement, of 50% reduction in emissions by 2030.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardClimate Change, Advocacy, ELCA AdvocacyComment
Devotional: Regenerative Relationships Inspire Advocacy
Devotional: Regenerative Relationships Inspire Advocacy

It can be hard to feel God’s restorative presence in these times. In the midst of violence towards each other and the Earth, I often wonder how the Holy Spirit is realizing God’s promise of resurrection in our lives and in our world.

For me, one answer is with the people and relationships in my life.An opportunity for regenerative relationship in my position as a Hunger Advocacy Fellow comes from my work with the EcoFaith Network of the Northeastern Minnesota Synod.

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ELCA, LettersBrian FlatgardAdvocacy, ELCA Advocacy, Climate ChangeComment
Sarah Kruger serves as new Resiliency Representative for Lutheran Disaster Response's Western Region
Sarah Kruger serves as new Resiliency Representative for Lutheran Disaster Response's Western Region

Lutheran Disaster Response (LDR) has contracted with Sarah Kruger to serve as their new Resiliency Representative for the LDR Western Region. The Western Region includes Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California, Hawaii, and U.S. Pacific Island Territories.

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Region 2, News, Grand Canyon SynodBrian FlatgardClimate Change, Lutheran Disaster Response, Lutheran Disaster Response Western RegionComment
Faith reflections: Theology and resistance to climate change
Faith reflections: Theology and resistance to climate change

Resurrection – new life out of death – is built into the natural world—the interdependent life cycles of plants and animals living together in ecosystems mirror resurrection. How can our faith help us care for creation?

Read the article by LeeAnn Pomrenke in Café, a publication of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (WELCA).

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ELCA, LettersBrian FlatgardWomen of the ELCA (WELCA), Climate ChangeComment
Earth Day is Friday, 4/22/2022
Earth Day is Friday, 4/22/2022

Earth Day is Friday, April 22, 2022! We encourage you to review ELCA’s social statement on Caring for Creation (in English or Spanish), and visit the Environment Advocacy page and resource pages at ELCA.org. And Lutherans Restoring Creation is a grassroots movement promoting care for creation in the ELCA.

Our friends at the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona have also compiled a great set of Earth Day events that you may interest you.

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Grand Canyon Synod, News, ResourcesBrian FlatgardEpiscopal Diocese of Arizona, Lutherans Restoring Creation, Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, Climate ChangeComment
Lutherans Restoring Creation provide creation-focused worship service for Earth Day
Lutherans Restoring Creation provide creation-focused worship service for Earth Day

An online worship service for Earth Day (4/24/2022) is being finalized by Lutherans Restoring Creation and they are excited to share it with all. If you want to integrate it into your worship service be sure to register now as private/preview links will be sent soon. Click here to register.

They are honored to have the Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos sharing the message of the day according to the Readings for April 24th. The service — in English, Spanish, and ASL — will be available to all via YouTube and Facebook starting Friday April 22, 2022.

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ELCA, Resources, Worship ResourcesBrian FlatgardLutherans Restoring Creation, Climate ChangeComment
Bishop Eaton: Spring and care for creation
Bishop Eaton: Spring and care for creation

As we prepare to celebrate Earth Day later this month, Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton shares some examples of how Lutherans are caring for creation and addressing climate justice.

God calls us to be stewards of the earth, and to fully integrate creation care into our love of God, neighbor and everything in our environment. Learn more at https://elca.org/environment.

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PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith launches new site
PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith launches new site

Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Director of the Center for Climate Justice and Faith, lets us know about their new website at centerforclimatejusticeandfaith.org. The Center, part of Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University, connects ecological healing to racial and economic justice. Visit the site and be sure to sign-up for email updates.

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Region 2, NewsBrian FlatgardPacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, California Lutheran University, Region 2, Climate ChangeComment
No Plastics for Lent
No Plastics for Lent

The #NoPlasticsforLent initiative, led by young adults across the church, calls us to prayer for creation, to lament the ways we have been complicit in the degradation of the earth, and to take action to care for our neighbor in fasting from the things that are hurting our planet. For more info, view the ELCA Young Adults Facebook page or the No Plastics for Lent website.

One of the discussion group leaders is Tiana Diaz-Reyes, a student in our synod’s Lutheran campus ministry. She is working toward her PhD in Sustainability at ASU.

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ELCA, News, Grand Canyon SynodBrian Flatgard2022 Lent, Youth and Young Adult, Climate ChangeComment
Adapting to the New Climate Needs Stewarding
Adapting to the New Climate Needs Stewarding

Ruth Ivory-Moore, ELCA Program Director for Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility, writes: “A new – but deemed to be landmark – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report was finalized on Feb. 27, “Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability” (IPCC Report). Unfortunately, the message is not new.

Yet while the report re-emphasizes the dire situation the global community faces, it also emphasizes hope: The climate we remember is gone, but we can dramatically limit the damage and reduce our risk by adapting to the new climate.

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ELCA, LettersBrian FlatgardAdvocacy, ELCA Advocacy, Climate ChangeComment
Billions of people are in danger from climate change, U.N. report warns
Billions of people are in danger from climate change, U.N. report warns

Billions of people on every continent are suffering because of climate change, according to a major new United Nations report released on Monday. And governments must do a better job of protecting the most vulnerable communities while also rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Read the article or give a 3-minute listen on NPR.org.

The New York Times has five takeaways from the U.N. Report on Climate Hazards:

  1. Climate hazards have worsened significantly in the past decade.

  2. If warming isn’t slowed, the dangers will multiply.

  3. Societies have not done enough to adapt and stay safe.

  4. As warming continues, it will become harder and harder to cope.

  5. Poor countries face much bigger challenges than rich ones.

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Song sung for climate justice critical for people of faith
Song sung for climate justice critical for people of faith

“Attending the most recent annual UN climate change conference in Glasgow, COP26, was great for the ELCA living out its public witness and social teachings. Our ELCA delegation was diverse and included frontline people – folks most impacted by climate change,” said Ruth Ivory-Moore, ELCA program director for environment and Corporate Social Responsibility. Hear also from Lutheran leaders who give us a sense of what it meant to be there.

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ELCA, NewsBrian FlatgardELCA Advocacy, Advocacy, Climate ChangeComment
Climate Justice, Health and Wellbeing with Dr. Manoj Kurian
Climate Justice, Health and Wellbeing with Dr. Manoj Kurian

The 2021 Mohrenweiser Lecture Series, co-sponsored by PLTS Center for Climate Justice & Faith, presents "Climate Justice, Health and Wellbeing" with Dr. Manoj Kurian. Friday, 12/10/2021, 10am - 1pm MST, 9am - noon PST. Free to join, registration required here.

This lecture will discuss how climate change is threatening human health and well-being, and the ethical and moral imperative for action.

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NewsBrian FlatgardRegion 2, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Climate ChangeComment