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Climate Change: Impact on Food Supply

The following tells of a potent (but virtually unknown) climate change that began and ended in a 300-year timeframe. At first, it benefitted the people and led to population growth and stability. But when it changed again at the end of that period, the two largest American civilizations north of Mexico had ceased to exist.    

Season of Creation: Work Across the Diocese

We are called to be caretakers of the gift of God’s creation. As we take time this month to reflect on God’s creation, it’s easy to dwell on the negative impacts that are taking place and lose sight of the forest for the trees. However, here in Arizona, congregations and ministries are taking action now to help reduce the problems around climate change and our environment. Here are just some of the ways.

Seed Sovereignty

The term “seed sovereignty” is virtually unknown in North America. Yet the term is very well-known and, in fact, has become a political rallying cry among Hispanic farming communities and Native American peoples of the Rocky Mountain West, on a par with the term “social justice.”

Water is Life

Four years ago, at the 61st Arizona Diocesan Convention, The Council for Creation Care submitted a water conservation resolution that was unanimously approved in both orders. As the resolution stated, congregations were offered the option to take actions that include one or more of the following:

Let the Trees Sing for Joy

Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad;    let the sea resound, and all that is in it.Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them;    let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.Let all creation rejoice before the Lord, for he comes,    he comes to judge the earth. Psalm 96:11-12 This month’s contribution to the Bishops’ Epistle from …

Creating a Stewardship Ethos

How Do You Help Someone Care About the Environment? by John Wennes, Creation Care Council Member Ethos – the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations. As a kid growing up in Tempe in the 1960s and 1970s, our family made occasional trips up north to the high …

Paper in the Life of the Church

By Thomas Blum Here in the Phoenix area, we just recently had a record run of thirty-one consecutive days with temperatures above 110°; many days over 115°. There can be little doubt that climate change is rearing its ugly head. One of the many culprits that may come as a surprise to many people is …

Hydrogen: God’s gift to planet Earth

by David Spence, MD Electric vehicles are flooding the market these days.  For those of us who take the threat of climate change seriously as part of our Christian responsibility to be good caretakers of the world that God created, this is a tremendous opportunity to reduce our carbon footprint.  But there are also zero-emission …