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Eco–Prayer Guidelines offers suggestions for eco-prayer and good will intentions. They describe eco-prayer principles and explain why praying and positive intentions are important. To read more on Eco–Prayer Guidelines, click here.
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The Eco–Prayer 30 Day Challenge is an easy way to deepen your connection and intent to the earth and all of its ecosystems. Eco–Prayer offers four simple steps to follow for 30 days. To read more or participate, click here.
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This guided meditation, written by Christine Sine from Godspace, is meant to provoke thought on what it would be like to welcome God home to an earth restored, transformed and made new. It also includes helpful ways to focus your thoughts and what you can do to make this world a more inviting place. To read more, click here.
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This resource from Godspace offers liturgy related to creation and gardening. The author, Christine Sine, said “ The sense of God’s presence with me as I read the liturgy was astounding for me. It made me realize how disconnected my spiritual practices usually are from my everyday life and how much more intimate my relationship with God can become when I connect my prayers to my daily activities.” She read the sample after gardening for a few hours. To read the entire resource, click here.
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Godspace has created a list of resources and books for further study. Some examples of books include:
Food And Faith: A Theology of Eating – Norman Wirzba
A Moral Climate: the ethics of global warming – Michael Northcott
To read the full list, click here.
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Godspace believes that community gardens are not just a place to grow food, but a way to express your faith and interact with God and His creation. Christine Sine, the creator of Godspace, wrote To Garden with God, a book of reflections and resources for those who want to make connections between gardening and faith. This free booklet is a spin-off resource and is meant to provide an updated list of new resources and techniques on gardening. To download this booklet, click here.
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GreenHeart Education is an organization that focuses on transformative education for sustainability. They offer a page of prayers for the earth that come from different cultures and religions around the world. You are able to download the entire list or write your own. To read all the prayers, click here.
They also believe that saying grace together at mealtimes is an excellent way to practice gratitude and grow closer together as a family or as a class, in a way that teaches children where their food comes from. To read these graces, click here.
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Christine Sine, the creator of Godspace, has provided a garden blessing prayer. It comes from her book, To Garden with God, and can be used to dedicate your garden. To read the blessing, click here.
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Creation Justice Ministries has created a list of ways to celebrate Earth Day Sunday this year. They include educational ideas, prayer examples, leading by example, and celebrating in God’s creation by immersing yourself in it. To read more, click here.
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“Having compassion for others begs the question of who ‘the others’ are. The animals whom we farm are sentient beings and individuals in their own right, even when they are crowded together in barren cages or windowless sheds. They are surely – in their billions – ‘others’ who deserve and desperately need our compassion. I wish CreatureKind great influence in bringing compassion to these fellow-beings of ours.”
– Joyce D’Silva, Ambassador Emeritus,
Compassion in World Farming
CreatureKind is a Christian animal welfare group that works to help institutions improve their practice as it impacts farmed animals, with benefits for humans, animals, and the environment. Becoming a CreatureKind institution means committing to a cycle of reviewing current sourcing, setting goals for improved practice, and acting on them, together with engaging your community about the program. The program have two major goals: reduce consumption of animal products and obtain remaining animal products from higher welfare. To read more about how to become a CreatureKind organization, click here.