Posts By: Rebecca Barnes

I Love Mountains!

PCUSA General Assemblies have time and again urged us to seek environmental justice, particularly for those in low-income communities. One of the most critical environmental justice issues in our country right now is to stand for justice for the people and environment of Appalachia, by standing against mountaintop removal coal mining.   Today, gathering as… Read more »

Environmental Ministries and GreenFaith announce partnership

GreenFaith Certification Program to offer interfaith approaches to caring for earth; Feb. 25 webinar will explain more Today (Feb. 8), GreenFaith and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s Environmental Ministries announce a collaboration to invite Presbyterian churches into the GreenFaith Certification Program.   The program offers an opportunity to enhance and expand the earth care ministries of… Read more »

Tread Lightly for Lent 2013 daily calendar available on-line

The 2013 daily calendar “Tread Lightly for Lent” is now available for download. Click here to learn more. Individuals and congregations alike are invited to use this resource as a daily reminder that drawing close to God and caring for God’s earth go hand in hand. May your Lenten season be blessed!

This weekend congregations will host preach-ins on climate change

Presbyterian congregations as well as many others are participating this weekend in a national “preach-in” on global warming. In addition to raising the issue of climate change in worship and preaching, churches may send postcards or petitions to President Obama to “love” God’s earth (this close to Valentine’s Day). My home church is participating in… Read more »

United Nations Conference of Parties meeting now in Qatar

Right now, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is meeting in Doha, Qatar for the 18th Conference of the Parties.   As Christians and as global citizens, we are invited to follow along.    During these two weeks, will you:   learn more, by reading about the conversations at the UNFCCC web… Read more »

Earth Care Congregations at the White House!

Last Thursday, September 13th, I joined other PCUSA colleagues, Leslie Woods (Office of Public Witness) and J Herbert Nelson (Office of Public Witness), at a fabulous EPA ENERGY STAR program on “Greening America’s Congregations through Energy Efficiency” at the White House. Members of 5 local Earth Care Congregations also attended, as well as an Earth… Read more »

Share Your Voice for Sustainable Development

Let’s contribute the voice of people of faith to United Nations conversations still emerging out of the Rio+20 conversations from late June. Called by God to care for creation, we can write, speak, and stand up for sustainability throughout all the earth. Read more »

Food!

How is eating a responsible act of one’s faithful discipleship? Beyond Thanksgiving Day, how do we show our gratitude about food? What kind of consumption supports the earth, farmers, and families?   Plan ahead for World Food Day in October with this Food Week of Action information.   And, mark your calendar for next spring’s… Read more »

Final Reflection on Rio+20 UN Conference

  Scriptural calls to confession and active repentance/turning Isaiah 5:8 Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!   Job 28:9-12 They put their hand to the flinty rock,… Read more »