Green Blades Preaching Roundtable
Ecological soundings of the weekly lectionary
Published monthly in the Green Blades Rising Newsletter
Distributed weekly to the Green Blades preaching community
Since the summer of 2021, the Green Blades Preaching Roundtable has been
gathering multiple voices to reflect on the ecological echoes, implications, and
urgencies in preaching the weekly lectionary. They range from entering seminary students to retired pastors, ordained pastors and deacons to spiritual directors and creation advocacy leaders.
Within each Sunday lectionary lies the grain of God’s living word spoken into our circumstances, but often buried beneath inherited ways of hearing. As we mutually attune ourselves to hear these ecological echoes and implications, the Word-seed germinates, pollinating the Spirit’s grassroots movement to tend and mend our relationships as part of the interdependent web of creation.
In the first year, twenty-four people have contributed to these reflections. Their style, perspective, length, and focus vary widely. Some focus on one reading, usually the gospel. Others address each of the four readings. Some include liturgical and hymn suggestions. All of them are attempts to listen for the living Word, in love with the whole creation, pleading, singing, beckoning.
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The Church and Earth Stewardship
9.5 Theses for Earthkeeping by Rev. Dr. David Carlson "The current ecological crisis and the challenges of addressing climate change call for reformation, within both church and society. In the spirit of the Reformer’s public posting on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, I offer these reflections on “Earth Stewardship: Lutheran Roots for A New Reformation” in the form of 9.5 Theses."
ELCA Social Statement on Care of Creation
Synod Assembly Resolution 2008 Resolution on the Care of Creation (submitted by Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Duluth) passed as amended by the 2008 NE MN Synod Assembly
Memorial Calling for A Just Transition to 50% Reduction in US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030 2022 resolution
Churchwide Assembly resolutions
9.5 Theses for Earthkeeping by Rev. Dr. David Carlson "The current ecological crisis and the challenges of addressing climate change call for reformation, within both church and society. In the spirit of the Reformer’s public posting on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, I offer these reflections on “Earth Stewardship: Lutheran Roots for A New Reformation” in the form of 9.5 Theses."
ELCA Social Statement on Care of Creation
Synod Assembly Resolution 2008 Resolution on the Care of Creation (submitted by Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Duluth) passed as amended by the 2008 NE MN Synod Assembly
Memorial Calling for A Just Transition to 50% Reduction in US Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2030 2022 resolution
Churchwide Assembly resolutions