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All Webinar Videos Now Available!

October 19, 2020

September was a great month for Creation Care in the North Carolina Conference. We started with the Bishop leading us in a worship service centered around what it means to be a creature and care for other creatures. Then we had a series of webinars on creation care, highlighting everything from the theology of creation… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: General Tagged With: archives, Church, creation, Creation Care, local, videos, webinars

A Practical Theology

September 3, 2020

John Wesley passed down three simple rules to us: Do no harm, do good, and stay in love with God. One of the things I love about Wesleyan theology, and these simple rules in particular, is their practical nature. Our theology is not one of speculation, but of action. The creation care team likewise wants… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: General Tagged With: creation, Creation Care, theology, webinars

connections: Consider the Lilies

May 29, 2018

The Annual Conference theme this year is God’s Generosity in All Creation. Let us be both awed by God’s beautiful creation and also caring and protective of it.

Filed Under: Connections Tagged With: AC 2018, All Creation, Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, creation, Creation Care, St. Francis

connections: St Patrick’s Day

March 13, 2018

As we honor St. Patrick on March 17 and approach the first day of spring, let us look and see God in all of creation.

Filed Under: Connections Tagged With: Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, creation, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's Day

A Perspective on Lent and Creation Care

February 27, 2018

The Lenten period affords Christians the opportunity to connect with the period when Jesus withdrew into the desert and fasted for 40 days and nights, and then resisted three temptations of the devil (Matt. 4: 1-11). It is a period of reflection, ideally at times in solitude, that might now include considering whether the devil… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: All Creation Tagged With: climate change, creation, Lent 2018, Resources

connections: Caring for God’s Creation

June 7, 2016

Bishop Ward gives thanks for the brilliance of the earth and all that God created and introduces Creation Care resources for congregations.

Filed Under: Connections Tagged With: Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, creation

connections: Giving Praise to the Creator

May 26, 2015

Bishop Ward reminds us to give thanks and praise for the many blessings God has created on the earth, as we move towards summer.

Filed Under: Connections Tagged With: Bishop Hope Morgan Ward, creation, Creator, Pat Watkins, summer

Loving God & Neighbor thru Creation Care

February 1, 2015

Join the National Preach-in on Global Warming this Valentine’s Day, as an expression of your love for God’s creation. North Carolina Interfaith Power & Light (www.ncipl.org) invites you and your congregation to join with faith communities all across the country February 13-15, 2015. Events already are planned for the Raleigh and Chapel Hill metro area… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: Creation Care, General, Local Outreach Tagged With: creation, Earth, Environment, Global Warming, health, outreach, Transforming

Caring for Creation – Lake Junaluska

November 1, 2010

March 31 – April 3, 2011 Life in our world today is challenged by how we care for the gift of Earth given to us by God.  The Christian faith challenges us to be caretakers of Earth. Caring for Creation helps members of faith communities learn how we can care of the Earth is often taken for… Continue Reading→

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: creation, justice, mission, Transforming

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