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The Creation Care Regional Retreat Feb. 7-8, 2020 offered powerful connections and resources. The group that gathered on Friday received care, conversation, good food, and intellectual nourishment. With the clergy, we explored ways of collectively offering hope and dancing with…
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Tags: 100% renewable, catholic, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), clean energy, climate activism, climate change, compassion, Creation Care, Energy Efficiency, episcopal, Food and faith, food security, gratitude, inspiration, Lutheran, meditation, peace, Presbyterian, science, social justice, Solar, Spirituality, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Church
Greta Thunberg is Time’s Person of the Year for 2019. In an era where integrity and truth, compassion and creativity have been challenged and eroded Greta Thunberg has simply acted on her convictions. It started with a strike from her…
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Category: Latest News, Reflections
Tags: clean energy, climate activism, climate change, compassion, faith, gratitude, greta thunberg, inspiration, science, social justice
We share this story with deep gratitude for the work of Climate Interactive and Rev. Selena Wright. A story of ongoing ripples of grace, healing, and justice from a colleague in ministry. Recently while at a clergy retreat, my friend…
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Tags: afforestation, christianity, climate change, Climate Interactive, climate science, climate simulation, compassion, faith, Faith In action, grace, gratitude, haiti, inspiration, love your neighbor, peace, reforestation, science, social justice, Spirituality, Treeplanting, trees, UN, United Church of Christ, wildfire
This Letter to the Editor appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Time on Saturday, September 13, 2019. Many thanks to the collective wisdom of Eliza Stokes, Maureen Linneman, Karim Olaechea, and Mary and Kevin Bates. A Pause that Disrupts On Friday, September…
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Category: CCA in the News, Prayers & Meditation Practices, Public Comments & Testimony
Tags: climate change, compassion, contemplation, ecology, gratitude, inspiration, peace, Sabbath, science, scientific consensus, Season of Creation, social justice, spirit, us climate strike
Cellist Judith Glixon was on Blue Ridge Public Radio this morning discussing “One Cello, One Planet,” her solo cello concert series highlighting the urgency of climate change. Glixon’s tour has stops in Black Mountain, Tryon, Hendersonville and Asheville this month,…
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Tags: Asheville, Black Mountain, Blue Ridge Public Radio, cello, compassion, creationcare, faith, Hendersonville, inspiration, jubilee!, love your neighbor, Music, One Cello, One Planet, orchestra, science, social justice, spirit, Tryon, Western North Carolina
The Creation Care Alliance was part of the rich ecosystem of the Wild Goose Festival again this summer in Hot Springs. Our team hosted table conversations and workshops about climate change and creation care for faith communities, using our Guide…
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Category: Congregational Stories, Educational Resources, Presentations & Webinars, Reflections
Tags: 100% renewable, climate change, compassion, Creation Care, evangelical, faith, hot springs, inspiration, peace, racism, science, social justice, Spirituality, wild goose festival
The Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina has launched the Guide to Cultivating Care for Creation – a new resource for churches, spiritual communities and people of faith looking for tangible ways they can act on behalf of our…
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Category: CCA in the News, Educational Resources, Presentations & Webinars
Tags: advocacy, CCA Toolkit, children, Church, clean energy, clergy, climate activism, climate change, compassion, composting, conservation, Creation Care, Creation care Team, Energy Efficiency, faith, Food, garden, green team, guide to cultivating care for creation, hymns, inspiration, joy, love your neighbor, meditation, preaching, Recycling, resources, science, Solar, Spirituality, sustainability, water, worship, zero waste
PRACTICING SHALOM IN OUR TIME OF CLIMATE CHANGE Wednesdays, April 24 – May 15 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Crouch Chapel First Baptist Church of Asheville 5 Oak Street, Asheville, NC 28801 ca.net We are happy to present this 4-part…
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Tags: Asheville, Baptist, clean energy, climate activism, climate change, climate science, compassion, First Baptist Church, inspiration, peace, prayer, Shalom, social justice, spirit
Creation Care Alliance of Western North Carolina
Pause that Disrupts- Letter to the Editor
Posted on by Karim Olaechea
This Letter to the Editor appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Time on Saturday, September 13, 2019. Many thanks to the collective wisdom of Eliza Stokes, Maureen Linneman, Karim Olaechea, and Mary and Kevin Bates. A Pause that Disrupts On Friday, September…
Read MoreCategory: CCA in the News, Prayers & Meditation Practices, Public Comments & Testimony Tags: climate change, compassion, contemplation, ecology, gratitude, inspiration, peace, Sabbath, science, scientific consensus, Season of Creation, social justice, spirit, us climate strike