This article was written by the Rev. Cliff Bahlinger, pastor, St. Luke, Cordova, TN, for Creation Justice Ministries, a ministry partner of the ELCA and the National Council of Churches. Pr. Bahlinger has been invited to be a clergy delegate to Washington, DC on April 19, where he and other clergy will meet with lawmakers at the Capitol as a part of Earth Day activities. He said, "we will ask our elected officials to support public land and advance funding for our National Parks." We are hopeful for a second article and some pictures when he returns.
We frequently read about how Americans consume too much and recycle too little. This message becomes even more apparent when one views the overflowing garbage cans each week in a typical American ...
Today is April 4, 2018 and I sit here alone in my study, melancholy yet grateful for the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man of peace who died a violent death. I had invitations to ...
From August 17, 2017 until September 3, 2017, we read about and watched the life of Hurricane Harvey. Beginning August 30, 2017 until September 16, 2017, the life of Hurricane Irma drew our ...
The American Diabetes Association has designated March 27, 2018 as American Diabetes Alert Day! The purpose of this designation is to make Americans more aware of the health risk of prediabetes and ...
I pay attention to the news and to what is going on in the world. I pay attention both to what I hear and to what I see. But in the last couple of weeks I haven’t been paying attention as carefully ...
Mark 1:23-26 23 Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, 24 and he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you ...
It is early January, it is around nine degrees outside and I am settled in front of my computer to decide what to say in a February newsletter article. February? January has just begun and my brain ...
Reconciliation, by Josefina de Vasconcellos, in St. Michael's Cathedral, Coventry “In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the ...
While recently thinking about New Year’s Resolutions, I came across a newsletter article that I wrote in 2016 about Health Ministries. Since health is usually at the top of my New Year’s resolutions,...
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