creation care and climate change
January 1, 2008
happy 2008!
Many of you all are probably familiar with the creation care movement. It’s probably best understood as the recent upswell in many western religions further exploring their beliefs about stewardship – the human obligation to care for the natural world. The links on the CEP Tips for Congregations web page offer only a smattering of creation care approaches, but it’s at least a place to get started.
And on that front, the Pope recently had a few words to say about the way humans are trashing their environment (NYTimes). I was interested in the connection he drew between human selfishness, and environmental neglect/ destruction. (Also I had no idea that the Vatican had purchased carbon offsets.)
Along the lines of how this matters to the Midwest, someone just forwarded me a notice that the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change is holding a Workshop on Climate Change, Rural Communities, and the Church, this February in Washington D.C.
Not to sound like a total hick, but – they have rural communities around D.C..? Having never been there, I am just going to have to assume so :) see, I probably just learned something. And the workshop is being held in a Hyatt Regency? Wow.
Who knows, maybe there’s future plans to hold that sort of workshop nearer the Catholic rural communities of the Midwest. Or maybe it’s been done already and I just don’t know it.
I just mention the idea… although in the places I’m thinking of, I don’t seem to recall any Hyatts.
— Maril Hazlett
