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Earth Day Every Day
...educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day in 1970, EARTHDAY.ORG is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet. Earthday.org Interfaith Power & Light “Faith Climate Action Week” April 16-25 The annual program will include climate-themed worship services and sermons, spanning 10 days of activities around Earth Day in celebration of Earth Month. The theme of...
Our Earth Day Festival Origins
Since its inception in 1970, Earth Day has been part of the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods campus, with the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, and students joining students from colleges, elementary schools, and more, across the country, participating in the Environmental Teach-In on the Crisis of the Environment. In much the same way as that first Earth Day became a grassroots movement propelled by citizens in action, White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, was...
Our Future and Land Justice
...any other single public works project in the United States,” wrote historian Michael L. Lawson in his book Dammed Indians Revisited. Hunting and Fishing Legal Rights For many centuries, Native American tribes have relied on hunting and fishing for subsistence and trade. Some tribes even migrated according to the movements of fish. The federal government generally guaranteed hunting and fishing rights when signing treaties with tribes in which the tribes gave up their lands. Conservation Easement … permanent protection of...
Maintaining Spiritual Balance
...unsettling space where we feel like everything is going wrong or it seems the very world is falling apart around us. In those moments of instability, we crave a pause, but the world keeps spinning and the pendulum keeps moving. How do we realign our movement when we are caught in the wobble? Not by forcing a sudden, unnatural stop. Meeting us where we are Instead, God meets us exactly where we are – and some of the ways that...
Disrupting apathy and injustice: Sister Tracey Horan and World Meeting of Popular Movements
Indiana delegation to the U.S. Regional World Meeting of Popular Movements. The group includes members of grassroots movements, organizers and people in church leadership from the Indianapolis Archdiocese and the Diocese of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Sister Tracey Horan is at front left. “Now, we must all become disruptors.” Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego addressed a crowd of nearly 600 clergy, women religious, and grassroots activists at the first regional meeting of the World Meeting of Popular Movements. Bishop McElroy...
White Violet Center earns ‘Real Organic Project’ designation
...of enforcement of some vital USDA Organic standards to protect soil health and animal welfare, organic farmers rallied together to fight to protect the integrity of the organic label. This is what originally motivated WVC Farm Manager John-Michael Elmore to apply for this certification. “We (WVC) are already certified organic, so this became an extension of that. USDA organic certification is getting manipulated by large agri-businesses, and doesn’t fully represent the original intent of the organic movement,” John-Michael said. “While it’s still an important regulatory standard,...
Celebrating National Women’s Equality Day!
...product of a century-long effort known as the women’s suffrage movement whose members believed that the right to vote is the cornerstone of a democratic system. An important highlight of that movement was the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York where activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led the approximately 300 attendees (about 40 were men) in the articulation of a Declaration of Sentiments which began with the assertion that “all men and women are created equal” and...
Mary Ann McCauley
Sister Mary Ann currently ministers as a volunteer at the Clinical Care Coordinator Office in Clinton, Indiana. She was taught by the Sisters of Providence in elementary and high school. Sister Mary Ann entered the Congregation on July 22, 1952. She taught students in Chicago during the time of the Civil Rights Movement, and subsequent scholastic reintegration. Sister Mary Ann said she cares for animals, the environment and communal living....
Nonviolent Resistance
...This fosters dialogue instead of conflict. Some Key Characteristics of Nonviolent Resistance Broader Participation – the nonviolent movement involves people from all backgrounds – ethnicity, gender and physical abilities. Focus on Humanity – the nonviolent movement appeals to the humanity of their opponent, fostering dialogue instead of conflict. The aim is restorative justice, restorative relationships. Systematic Approach – nonviolent resistance requires the long game strategy with clear objectives, identifiable leaders and trained participants. Long-term commitment – the effectiveness and success...
Spiritual Direction
...listen, and encourage you as you feel the movement of the Holy Spirit. Spiritual directors will help you see where God is in the everyday. People enter into spiritual direction for many different reasons. You may be seeking to deepen your relationship with God or it may be a time when there is a trauma or difficulty in your life such as a crisis of faith or deep loss. Spiritual direction is not counseling. It is meant to be a...
Climate justice: Laudato Si’
...to us by our Provident God and the opportunities that come from being attentive both to limits as well as possibilities, and using them to foster creativity, we will cultivate inner and interpersonal transformation and take initiative in order to continue the mission of love, mercy and justice in service among all creation. The Global Catholic Climate Movement has offered a Lenten Reflection for this year, “Repenting of Ecological Sin and Cultivating Ecological Virtues.” Here is a link to the resource....
ICE and Immigration
...Reconstructionist Movements of Judaism [we] condemn, in the strongest terms, the violence with which the Department of Homeland Security is enforcing American immigration law — above all, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as in cities and towns across the nation.” Bishop Anthony B. Taylor of Little Rock, Arkansas, penned an op-ed in his diocesan newspaper, warning against the “dehumanization of mass, indiscriminate deportation,” drawing on his own family’s history during the Holocaust. Episcopal Church Bishops: “The bishops express grief and...