This year, General Convention -- the legislative governing body of the Episcopal Church -- passed 19 resolutions for the care of God's creation. Each Tuesday, we feature one here! Share on Facebook 2018-C049: "Support Producers of Locally Grown Food" This resolution “requests the staff of faith communities, dioceses, camp and conference centers and other Episcopal... Continue Reading →
Weekly ECN Newsletter/Bulletin Insert: Climate Conversations, and Oscar Romero
This week's green-living tip is to talk to your family and friends about climate change, and our quote is from the newly canonized Saint Oscar Romero. Think having a green corner in your parish newsletter or bulletin is a great idea, but don’t have time to research or write one? Episcopal Climate News is here... Continue Reading →
Church Resolutions: Climate Change and additional support for EC Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility
This year, General Convention -- the legislative governing body of the Episcopal Church -- passed 19 resolutions for the care of God's creation. Each Tuesday, we feature one here! Share on Facebook 2018-C021: "Climate Change and additional support for EC Committee on Corporate Social Responsibility" Calls on the Executive Council and the Church Pension Fund... Continue Reading →
Church Resolutions: Water as a Human Right
This year, General Convention -- the legislative governing body of the Episcopal Church -- passed 19 resolutions for the care of God's creation. Each Tuesday, we feature one here! Share on Facebook 2018-B025: "Water as a Human Right" Recognizing that water and sanitation are human rights, the resolution urges all church communities and facilities to... Continue Reading →
ECN Editorial: A Response to EPPN’s Climate-Change Action Alert
The choice of whether or not to support H.R. 6463 is a complicated one. As an independent project, Episcopal Climate News does not endorse the MARKET CHOICE Act, but does lift up the EPPN alert as a heartening example of the church taking strong moral action on climate change.
Eight of UTO’s 2018 grants for justice and racial healing to focus on environmental justice
At General Convention yesterday, the United Thank Offering announced 34 grant winners who will receive a total of $1.25 million. The focus of the 2018 granting process was “Becoming Beloved Community: Racial Healing, Reconciliation, and Justice." Eight of the 34 grants for dioceses, Anglican Communion partners, seminarians, and young adults include components of environmental justice, creation... Continue Reading →
General Convention 2018 to Consider 20+ Environmental Resolutions
Update: This post is now outdated. To learn the final status of all 29 environmental resolutions, please see "General Convention Passes 19 Resolutions for the Care of God’s Creation". General Convention, the triennial governing body of the Episcopal Church, meets for the 79th time July 5-13, 2018, in Austin, TX. At least 26 different resolutions... Continue Reading →
Visit ECN on Facebook
Like and follow Episcopal Climate News on Facebook for all the latest news about Episcopal, ecumenical, and interfaith eco-spirituality and climate action! The Episcopal Climate News website will also soon serve as an active blog, mirroring all the content placed on Facebook in order to make this vital and pressing topic equally accessible to those... Continue Reading →
Announcing Episcopal Climate News
Climate change is the biggest threat facing humanity and the earth today, and Episcopalians from across the church have begun to respond. Episcopal Climate News launched as a Facebook page and blog on May 9, 2018, in order to serve as an unofficial Episcopal climate-communications hub, aggregating stories about Episcopal, ecumenical, and interfaith climate action... Continue Reading →