New Indulgences?

Are carbon credits the new indulgences? Are they just a means for buying permission to pollute - if you are rich enough you can consume and burn and pollute as much as your guilt and pocketbook can handle? Or are they a responsible way for green minded folks to do even more, recognizing a zero carbon footprint is impossible? What do you think? Do any of you have experiences with these?

St. Francis

October 4 is the feast day of St. Francis - patron saint of ecology and all animals. This is a great day to bless animals, do some funky creation stuff in worship and otherwise praise the Creator. Of course, we do well when we recall the other aspect of this saint's work: care for the poor.

Leonordo Boff - Brazillian theologian in hot water with the current pope of late - has a tremendous book entitled "Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor." He captures the spirit of Francis by unting the groaning we so often quote from Romans 8 with the cries of the oppressed.

While we work for liberation - kin[g]dom building - while we create space for the spirit, while we live lives that give glory to God, we are invited into the mystery of salvation wherein ALL creation is brought into the fullness of its created being.

Blessings!

God is Green

Mars Hill did a great teaching series this summer on "God is Green." Check out their website to download or subscribe for their podcast.

http://www.marshill.org/teaching/

Face to Face

Looking for a little face to face contact? Come to the next taskforce meeting:

THIS SATURDAY, Sept 15
9 am
St Matthew's Lutheran Church
1615 Wauwatosa Ave
Wauwatosa, WI

Blogging for Creation

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