Various faith communities have teachings that provide guidance on how people are to care for the earth, including its human and non-human creatures. This page has articles on how faith influences lifestyle. We invite you to reflect upon how your faith shapes your relationship with our earth.
The ICCT Earth Friendly Practices Team is excited to share an opportunity to practice an earth friendly diet in conjunction with the Christian observance of Lent. We also offer some resources to adapt it to Ramadan and Passover.
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Eighty people joined the virtual Triangle Clergy Dialogue with Rep. Deborah Ross on Climate Action on September 27, 2021. This was a powerful coming together of faith leaders and members of congregations all over the Triangle to speak our common voice on the critical need to care for the environment for the sake of future generations. Hosted by Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle and Orange-Chatham Interfaith Care for Creation.
Watch this inspiring sermon on Creation Care by Rev. Megan Pardue, from the Duke University Chapel on May 30, 2021. Watch the Sermon
This Lent, consider changing the way you eat. Local Catholic churches have put a new twist on Lent called Greener Lent, designed to care for the poor, who are first and foremost affected by environmental degradation.
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic, many ICCT presentations focused on demonstrating
that climate change is a biblical issue, as well as a scientific one. The pandemic has
moved us to recognize that Covid-19 is also a biblical/religious issue, as well as a medical one.
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"Human beings thrive when we cooperate and find fulfillment through harmonious and friendly relationships.” This 2019 statement underscores the Baha'i faith's deep commitment to creation care. A Raleigh member of the Baha'i community offers this perspective.
In response to the wrongful deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and so many others, 300+ members of Raleigh faith communities created a human line of solidarity from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church to the State Capitol.
Join a Conversation about Pope Francis’ Laudato si' in the context of COVID-19. It's happening on Zoom, May 21 from 7:00- 8:30 pm, and is facilitated by Trevor Thompson, St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, in conjunction with ICCT.
Solar panels could be coming soon to a church near you. Through a campaign called Project 20.’25, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) has set out to get 20 percent of its members to convert fully to clean energy by 2025.
The Green Bible, published by Harper Collins in 2008, was developed with the intention of being the first specialty bible to take the issue of creation care seriously. The original Green Bible used the New Revised Standard Version of the Christian bible (NRSV). It is a green-letter edition, meaning that if text was judged to meet four creation care criteria it is printed green. The four criteria are: (more…)
