As we strive for justice and peace, we can learn from what each other are doing. We can share in our successes and collaborate on our challenges. Post your stories - from everyday advocacy (the little things that sometimes happen and you even don't realize they're advocacy until it's over) to parish and community efforts that you are a part of. This is the place for Episcopalians to share how we are striving for justice and peace! Take a few minutes to tell us how you've made a difference in your community. You'll be amazed at how just one story – yours – could inspire people around the world. We welcome your contribution!
In considering the question of teaching and learning, I am moved by the deep dilemma faced by the people in my diocesan community, who despair at the lack of response they experience when trying to engage their parishioners in concerns about the environment. Most are discouraged as they plod along, with a clear conviction that they need to do something. We are taking on this new challenge by becoming a support group for each other. Under the leadership of a seminarian from the Cathedral, We have created an Easter follow up, much like Lenten commitments we so often do in the church...
On Saturday, April 24 a dozen girls from Esperanza Acadeny, a Miguel Nativity school in Lawrence, Ma., will participate in a cleanup day in their city. The effort is sponsored by Comcast in conjunction with Groundwork Lawrence, a grassroots organization dedicated to bringing agricultural and 'green' spaces to the city. We at Esperanza are so proud of the outreach activities our girls do all year long. This is but one way they give back to their community. Joan Campbell, proud volunteer
This is my story of trying to make a difference in the world around me and further away: I've been recycling since the 70's. I pick up litter everywhere I go. I've recently been entering codes from Tropicana orange juice to the Save the Rain Forest project during 2009. Each code turned in to tropicanarainforest.com saves 100 sq ft of rain forest in S. America. At my church we grow veggies for the poor, and at another church #2 and #4 plastic bags and used batteries are collected and recycled or disposed of properly. I take hazardous waste like oil-based paint to the proper disposal place, also used electronics. Those items that are reusable, I take to the Salvation Army or to the Reuse Store. I buy reused clothes. Collect money and buy groceries for the poor. I knit sweaters for poor kids and scarves for poor seamen. Give spare blankets, etc to the homeless ministry. I sponsor a child through World Vision. I buy animals from Heifer Project as gifts at Christmas. Went with a group to New Orleans where we cleaned up several homes and served a hot meal to the people living in FEMA trailers. I write my government officials to encourage them to pay attention to such bills as stopping global warning, human slave trading, racial hatred etc.
I am an Episcopalian and a vegan. I went vegetarian for spiritual reasons (not Christian, since I didn't know of any precedent or respected tradition to support it at that time) about 9 years ago. I gave up eggs and dairy as soon as I found out how battery hens and veal calves are kept in close confinement, along with other agricultural practices that I didn't want to support, and could live just as well without supporting. But shortly afterward, I discovered two clergypersons: J.R. Hyland (an evangelical pastor who wrote the "Humane Religion" magazine articles and God's Covenant with Animals), and Andrew Linzey (an Anglican theologian, who wrote a pamplet, "Toward a Prophetic Church for Animals", Animal Gospel, Animal Theology, and many others). Andrew introduced me to the Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals. That was when the (mis)treatment of animals became a Christian concern for me.
I am an Episcopalian and a vegan. I went vegetarian for spiritual reasons (not Christian, since I didn't know of any precedent or respected tradition to support it at that time) about 9 years ago. I gave up eggs and dairy as soon as I found out how battery hens and veal calves are kept in close confinement, along with other agricultural practices that I didn't want to support, and could live just as well without supporting. But shortly afterward, I discovered two clergypersons: J.R. Hyland (an evangelical pastor who wrote the "Humane Religion" magazine articles and God's Covenant with Animals), and Andrew Linzey (an Anglican theologian, who wrote a pamplet, "Toward a Prophetic Church for Animals", Animal Gospel, Animal Theology, and many others). Andrew introduced me to the Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals. That was when the (mis)treatment of animals became a Christian concern for me.
