Holy Ground
Holy Responsibility: Claiming Our Call to Tend the Earth
Scripture Lesson Romans 8:12-19 12 So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— 13 for if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of…
Holy Water: Respecting Creation, Respecting Creator
Scripture Lesson Proverbs 8:1-3, 22-31 The Gifts of Wisdom 8 Does not wisdom call, Does not understanding raise her voice?2 On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;3 beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: Wisdom’s Part in Creation 22 The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,[a] the first of his acts of old.23 Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.24 When there were no depths I…
Holy Creatures: Loving Our Wild Neighbors
Scripture Lesson Job 12:7-10 7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you;8 or the plants of the earth,[a] and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you.9 Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?10 In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.
Holy Order: Every Species has a Sacred Role
Scripture Lesson Romans 12:4-6 4 For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, 5 so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. 6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
Holy Gift: God Creates, We Steward
Scripture Lesson Genesis 1:26-31 26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God…