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Day: April 5, 2008

Earth Day resources

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Since the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Earth Day has been an annual event for people around the world to celebrate the earth and renew our commitment to building a safer, healthier and cleaner world for all of us. It is a wonderful opportunity to embrace all of God’s creation, raise awareness and pray for “this fragile earth, our island home” (Eucharistic Prayer C, Book of Common Prayer). We have collected many resources and websites to facilitate the planning of education offerings and worship celebrations for this day.

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The faith of a village

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Minto, Alaska, is home to about 180 people. While it’s situated less than 80 miles northwest of Fairbank as a bird flies, it takes nearly five hours to get there by car. As Christy McKerny of the Washington Post describes, accompanying the Rev. Bessie C. Titus on the drive to visit Minto’s new worship center was a breathtaking experience.

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A ministry of listening

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The host of Public Radio International’s Speaking of Faith found herself on the other side of the interviewer’s mike recently, in a profile on PBS’s Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. The show won a Peabody award this week, and the R&E piece took a closer look at what Krista Tippett allows might be “a ministry of listening rather than preaching”:

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Remembering the dangerous
Dr. Martin Luther King

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We remember King as “moral conscience of his nation,” “teacher of Christ-like non-violence,” “preacher of Christ’s love for neighbor,” and “champion of oppressed humanity.” We dare not let our politicians tame his memory, as he becomes part of the pantheon of civil religion, invoked with ease by leaders who stand against nearly everything he stood for. As hypocrites do when we invoke God, we honor King with our lips but not with changed lives.

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Free from death

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I see flames of orange, yellow and red

shooting upwards to the sky, piercing the whole clouds.

I see the clouds themselves chasing the flames upwards,

and I feel the air itself reading for the heavens.

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