Recording & Resources for Earth-Aware Worship: November Green Sanctuary Community Meeting
We hope you enjoyed last night's Green Sanctuary 2030 Community meeting with Rev. Kelly Dignan from the UU Ministry for Earth as much as we did! Rev. Kelly offered lots of great resources in her presentation (see the video recording or slides) and the community offered several in the chat. We encourage you to sign up for updates from the UU Ministry for Earth - www.uumfe.org - to receive their resources like Monthly Musings and their Earth Day Resources (emailed to subscribers on February 1). You can reach out to Rev. Kelly directly at kellydignan@uumfe.org.
Make sure to RSVP for UUMFE's Winter Solstice Celebration: Light for All on the Darkest Night. This celebration is part of the Clean Energy as a Human Right webinar series including, Visionary Approaches to Federal Clean Energy Funding and Creating Hubs of Climate Resilience with Federal Clean Energy Funding.
Are you ready for the Green Sanctuary 2030 Celebration on January 17? We can't wait to hear updates from our GS2030 Teams. Fill out this short form to let us know that you'll be there to share your good work. Presentations need to be no more than 3 minutes long so we can make room for everyone! Complete the form to let us know you want to present and make sure you RSVP here!
Congratulations to the UU Fellowship of Raleigh, North Carolina on their Green Sanctuary 2030 Recognition! UUFR has completed significant work on each of the four essentials for climate action - Congregational Transformation, Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience, and Justice with plans for continued action. Great work UUFR!
Resources:
Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta is the book Rev. Kelly mentioned:
Justice on Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Environment, edited by Manish Mishra-Marzetti and Jennifer Nordstrom (Skinner House Books, 2018), as the 2018-19 Common Read.
Cultural appropriation. Two links from the UUA website:
Resources for Cultural (Mis) Appropriations
Considerations for Cultural Borrowing
The Monthly Musings issue on humility includes the poem: Homage to Rocks.
Sign up for UU Ministry for Earth updates, and keep an eye out for Earth Day resources which will be shared on February 1.
Additional resources
“How to find joy in climate action" TED talk.
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication has been tracking opinions on global warming for many years through their 6 Americas surveys and Yale Climate Opinion Maps. You can use the YPCCC Six Americas Super Short Survey (SASSY) to survey your congregation’s opinions on climate change. Lots of great resources on this site!