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This week’s ECN local-project spotlight features the Episcopal Earthkeepers Circle. According to a church press release, the Diocese of Minnesota received a $5,000 grant to “develop an online repository of sermon starters, sample sermons and ideas for creation care themed preaching.” Share on Facebook The sermon bank is coming soon. In the meantime, you can... Continue Reading →
A sermon on Climate Change, Apollo 11, Racism, the Christ Hymn, and Mary & Martha
This past Sunday was Trinity Sunday. In his first sermon as a newly ordained priest, ECN editor Nathan Empsall said that the Trinity shows us that all of nature, including humanity, is created in the image of God: The image of interconnection. A version of this sermon was delivered at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in... Continue Reading →
Today, January 25, 2019, is the Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. ECN’s editor, the Rev. Deacon Nathan Empsall, preached a version of the following sermon this morning at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, linking Paul's road to Damascus with climate science, Connecticut’s recent ice storm, and the much-beloved hymn “I the Lord of... Continue Reading →
Episcopal Climate News is edited by the Rev. Nathan Empsall, an Episcopal deacon and current seminarian. In my preaching course at Yale Divinity School, we were required this week to write and deliver a brief "prophetic oracle" -- a short passage (or oracle) focused on judgement, lamentation, and/or hope, in the style of the Old... Continue Reading →
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