Contact Your Leaders
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Interfaith Letter Opposing “Save Our Bacon” (SOB) amendment
Background: Here’s a letter I’m writing to ask you to forward to your network of faith leaders and anyone who can sign on behalf of a faith organization. Please adapt and distribute as you see fit for your networks, and encourage… Continue reading
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The Climate Crisis and the Four Levels of Action
As part of our Season of Creation set of events, we hosted a talk by Paul Litwin & Len Kannapell entitled The Climate Crisis and the Four Levels of Action on Sun, Sep 14 at 12:30 PM at the St.… Continue reading
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Season of Creation Week 4
We are now in week four of the Season of Creation, that time in the church calendar, where we focus on God’s creation and how we can work to better take care of it. During week 1, I asked you… Continue reading
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From Legislation to Banking
The Inflation Reduction Act should become law by about the time you read this. And if you care about creation and climate change and haven’t had a chance to read about it: you should. It’s the biggest legislation in US… Continue reading
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We did it!
Just after putting last week’s blog post to bed, I pulled up the New York Times on my phone to read that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin “in a Reversal, Agrees to Climate and Tax Package“. Like many, I had… Continue reading
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Marching Against Gun Violence
The number of innocent lives lost in recent mass shootings brings so much anguish. That is why I attended an interfaith prayer vigil and march against gun violence last Thursday along with Suzanna and Joyce Farrell. Several hundred of us… Continue reading
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What I learned at high school
A couple of weeks ago, I spoke to Nathan Hale High School students as part of their Climate Day of Action. Hopefully, the students learned a few things from my talk, The Climate Crisis and the Four Levels of Action… Continue reading
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Climate Action Now!
Most people think that contacting their representatives regarding climate change and pending legislation is too hard. A while back, I wrote about a web page I created to make it easier at how-to-contact-your-leaders. While this is still a handy resource… Continue reading
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The solutions are at hand today
Last week, I wrote about guilt and action. I suggested that guilt could be a motivator for action and that the sage advice to avoid all guilt might be wrong if it avoided taking responsibility and having empathy. But feeling… Continue reading
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Liberty vs. Responsibility
When I started my first job out of graduate school, I remember thinking that I had finally arrived at adulthood. I had a great job, a healthy salary, and no more classes. I recall at the time, realizing that I… Continue reading
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