Good Friday: Dependent on Death
For any creature to live, countless seen and unseen others must die, often by being eaten themselves. Life as we know it depends on…
Maundy Thursday: Returned to Rest
Smooth approach, gentle nod Her voice precedes our form Like water waking canvas, She re-stories faces worn. So long these crosses take to draw…
Day 37: The Choice of Care
[openquote] May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the Lord rejoice in his works— who looks on the earth and it trembles,…
Day 36: All Creatures of Our God
In this Holy Week, EnviroLent returns to song. All Creatures of our God and King was penned by Saint Francis of Assisi.[ref]In its original…
Day 35: I’ve Seen Stones Cry
He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” Luke 19:40 I’ve seen the stones cry out. I’ve…
Palm Sunday
Today is the final Sabbath day of EnviroLent, which means it’s also Palm Sunday. It’s the day we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem…
Day 31: God the Sustainer
[openquote]These all look to you to give them their food in due season; when you give to them, they gather it up; when you…
Day 30: Catalogue of Trees
That poet born of heaven came to be in residence, and plucking his resounding lyre strings, he summoned many shade trees to his presence….
Day 29: Snow
If God is really at the center of things…. then…buck the dominant consequentialist ethic of our age–which says that we should act only if our action will most likely bring about good consequences–and simply, because we are people who embody the virtue of hope, do the right thing.
DAY 28: To Usher in Communion and Life
Graduate students in the sciences were challenged to translate their research into a prayer of confession—to communicate how the work they’re doing in creation…