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Engage with Climate Justice resources. Watch the recording of our webinar, Caring for climate: Beyond denial and despair. Many people are still in denial...
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Books and Articles Jim Antal, Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018). Jim Ball, Global Warming and the Risen Lord: Christian Discipleship and Climate Change (Washington, DC: Evangelical Environmental Network, 2010). Pope Francis, “Laudato Si” (Washington, DC: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2015). https://laudatosi.com.Each of the three resources above are accessible and thoughtful approaches to climate change from a Christian perspective. Antal comes from a liberal Protestant perspective, Ball from a conservative evangelical...
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By Laurie Oswald Robinson, Mennonite Mission Network NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network and Mennonite Church USA) — When Mennonite Mission Network’s church-planting coach Mauricio Chenlo attended the 60th anniversary of Primera Iglesia Menonita de Brooklyn in New York City last August, he did not yet know the Spirit’s plans for the future. It did not take long, however, for Chenlo, leader of the Sent Network, and others to catch God’s vision for planting a renewed peace witness in...
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Shaping the next generation of resources for the central practices of the church This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Irma Fast Dueck is an associate professor of Practical Theology at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Canada. She serves on the "Hymnal...
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Mennonite Church USA is an Anabaptist, Christian denomination with roots in the Radical Reformation of 16th-century Europe. It is the largest Mennonite denomination in the United States with 16 conferences, approximately 530 congregations and 62,000 members. The Mennonite Church today is growing rapidly in...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA's Climate Justice: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. Luke Gascho served as executive director of Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College for 22 years before retiring in 2019. He and his wife, Becky, live in Goshen, Indiana and are members of Waterford Mennonite Church. He led the founding of the Mennonite Creation Care Network and has served on the boards of several faith-based environmental organizations. The temperature was -10°F as my brother and I trekked about a mile out on the ice of the lake near our northern Minnesota home...
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By MC USA staff (Mennonite Church USA) — Mennonite Church USA’s most popular webinar, Caring for Climate: Beyond Denial and Despair, is now available as a video series. The video series is part of MC USA’s Learn, Pray, Join initiative on climate justice, coordinated in partnership with Mennonite Creation Care Network (MCCN) and the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions (CSCS). “We recognize that people we know and love are struggling with climate crisis,” said Sue Park-Hur, MC USA’s denomination minister for transformative peacemaking in her video introduction. “Some are still in denial, while others are in deep despair about a...
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By Camille Dager, Mennonite Church USA Taftsville Chapel Mennonite Fellowship – a small, geographically dispersed congregation in rural Vermont – has strengthened its ties with each other and the broader community through spiritual practices that help care for all of creation. “Creation care is core to living simply,” said Taftsville member Laura Beidler. “By caring for our earth, we are both preserving the beauty, and we are working to ensure that our more vulnerable brothers and sisters have safe places to work and live. It is definitely a matter of justice.” [caption...
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By The Corinthian Plan team: Ingrid Friesen Moser, Joe Christophel, James Miller, Teresa Pickens and Duncan Smith COVID-19 has rapidly changed many things in our families, churches and communities. Here are some ways The Corinthian Plan staff are responding to and noticing people coming together to get through this difficult time. We invite you to add your ideas and experiences in the comment section below. Ideas for some structure to your (quarantined) days: Ensure each family member has a designated workspace for work or school. Begin your day with exercise, even if it is just 5 to 15 minutes. Doing...
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This article is part of our series on Voices Together, a new worship and song collection coming fall 2020 from MennoMedia, in partnership with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Melanie A. Howard, Ph.D. is the assistant professor and program director of Biblical and Theological Studies at Fresno Pacific University. She is a part of the worship community at Willow Avenue Mennonite Church in Fresno, California, where she regularly leads worship, teaches, and preaches." Words from Scripture arranged for use in worship are included in the back of the 1969 Mennonite Hymnal (66 readings) as well as the 1992 Hymnal:...
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By MC USA staff (Mennonite Church USA) — During widespread church closures and physical distancing caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), the largest Mennonite denomination in the United States, and its five program agencies have responded by educating, encouraging and equipping its conferences, congregations, ministry partners, constituents and staff. “Our leaders are working together to listen and provide good information and helpful resources to our church community during this crisis,” said Glen Guyton, executive director of MC USA. “Our priority is extending love to one another in these difficult times by offering programming that best serves...
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en inglés DALLAS (Red Menonita de Misión/Iglesia Menonita de EE. UU.) — En el encuentro de este año de Esperanza para el futuro (HFF, por sus siglas en inglés), quienes asistieron celebraron el legado de Stanley W. Green, uno de los organizadores originales del...
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This post is part of Mennonite Church USA's Climate Justice: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. Sarah Nahar (neé Thompson) is from the Great Lakes watershed, and now lives in Syracuse, New York (traditional Haudenosaunee land) where she is a PhD student in Religion and Environmental Studies. She is licensed with MC USA’s Central District Conference. What drew you to your work in religion and environmental justice? I joined the board of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) while studying liberation theology at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS). As I learned more about CPT’s work I felt a deep connection between violence...
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Jennifer Halteman Schrock is the leader of Mennonite Creation Care Network (MCCN) [MC USU'S Climate Justice Ministry's predecessor] and the communications manager for Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College. She lives in Goshen, Indiana, with her husband, Dan, and is part of Berkey Avenue Mennonite Fellowship. It was not a welcome request. Would I, as the leader of Mennonite Creation Care Network like to speak at a Renewable Energy Day at the Indiana Statehouse? Would I like to spend my Christmas vacation thinking about what to say, then head out on a long drive in winter weather to address a...
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