Sunday Adult Formation: Creation Care
Sunday, October 27, 2024, 9:30 AM
9:30-10:15, October 13 - November 3, Library
The Creation Keepers, St. Thomas’ Green Team who seek to care for our shared home will present an Adult Formation series on Creation Care. The topics will include:
- Developing the Indigenous Mindset
- Overview of the Creation Care/Environmental Stewardship Resolutions from General Convention
- Discussion on Clean Energy and Carbon Sinks (keeping carbon out of the air; keeping carbon in the ground)
- Achieving net zero goals through individual and collective action to sustain Earth’s beauty and resources
The triple planetary crisis urgently demands our prayerful attention and response: Climate change, Loss of biodiversity, and Pollution. Each of these problems is a crisis of its own, but all three converge and exacerbate each other. Destabilizing, dismantling, and polluting Earth’s life-systems is an issue of social and racial injustice. Historically marginalized and underserved communities are hurt first and worst by the effects of a degraded environment and are those least likely to have a seat at the table where policy decisions are made. Leaving a ruined world to our children and children’s children is likewise an issue of intergenerational injustice. As people of faith, we understand that environmental degradation is a deeply spiritual and moral issue and that the Church is called to proclaim through prayer and action God’s good news to the whole Creation.
Tags: Adult Formation / Learn