From St. Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: The books are piling up for Sunday’s Simpler Living Book Swap! Up to 9/22, your well-read selections can be dropped in the yellow bins in the breezeway. The Simpler Living Book Swap invites us to re-gift/recycle books and declutter our bookshelves at the same time! On 9/22 the … READ MORE…
While adults need to take responsibility for their less than conscientious response to the climate crisis over the years, we don’t want to put unfair expectations on our children and grandchildren who will bear the brunt of the effects of extreme weather and the continued use of fossil fuels. Still it’s good to know that … READ MORE…
From Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: Here are two Cathedral Season of Creation offerings that you might want to include on your calendar: Hike in Balboa Park on September 15! Longtime Simpler Living member and past convener Phil Petrie will lead us on an urban walk in Balboa Park, which will take about an hour and … READ MORE…
Once again St. Paul’s Cathedral – as a member of the Anglican Communion – will celebrate the global September Season of Creation. We will be one of the many ecumenical communities across the world that honoring this year’s theme “To hope and to act with creation” through prayer, education, and action for God’s good creation. … READ MORE…
From St Paul’s Simpler Living Creation Care ministry: St Paul’s Cathedral once again will celebrate the September Season of Creation throughout the month, featuring a Creation-themed liturgy on 9/22. We are one of many ecumenical communities across the world that will participate in activities in response to the call to care for creation. The Anglican … READ MORE…
From Simpler Living Creation Care: Hopefully many Cathedral members have taken the opportunity to respond to The Episcopal Church’s call to support important proposed National social justice legislation through the Office of Government Relation. Some of those calls to action have appeared in our weekly bulletin. View the calls-to-action (Click Here). There are also regional interfaith … READ MORE…
Sacred Ground in Action & Simpler Living Creation Care ministry: As people of faith, can we acknowledge the reality of climate migration and – more than ever – the need to welcome the stranger? Creation Justice Ministries invites us to learn about ways to welcome our local and global neighbors who have been – and the … READ MORE…
From Simpler Living Creation Care Ministry: As a coastal community and congregation that cares for Creation, we have two great reasons to reduce our plastic consumption. It starts with refusing to choose single-use plastics. And while Plastics Free July has come and gone, we can still take advantage of the great resources provided by several … READ MORE…
As people of faith we are called to move from our comfort zones to take action for justice. GreenFaith, a multi-faith climate and environmental movement endorsed by Simpler Living and the Interfaith Coalition for Earth Justice, has issued a groundbreaking report calling on the world’s largest banks to phase out their finance for coal, oil and … READ MORE…
From Sacred Ground in Action and Simpler Living Creation Care ministries: In another instance of “everything is connected,” here is a wonderful Green America resource. May Asian and Pacific American Heritage month encompasses “…people from all 48 countries of the Asian continent and the 25 island nations that make up Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Like … READ MORE…