Faith and Nature curriculum
Summer is the time of year when Christian Education leaders and clergy start planning workshops, classes and curriculum for the coming Church year. If you're looking for a resource that will guide discussions about greening our lives and living more gently on the earth from within a life of faith, you might want to check out this new curriculum published this summer by Church Publishing:
"Faith and Nature is an eight-session, downloadable, intergenerational, faith-formation resource focused on appreciating and living in harmony with God’s creation. The study includes 15 photos and 10 illustrations. This intergenerational spiritual formation program explores and embraces how God is at work in nature, using the Anglican approach of scripture, tradition, reason, experience – and fun! Learners will build awareness and appreciation of our spiritual connection to Creation/nature in a traditional way that prepares participants to bring hope and faithful action to today’s ecological concerns"
Read the full article here.
I know here in my congregation there have been a number of conversations, motivated in part by the oil spill in the Gulf this spring, about how we might learn to live in different ways; ways that are more ecologically sensitive. What other resources have you been using? We've had programs ranging from putting heat reducing film on the Cathedral's windows (a big help here in Phoenix) to monthly hikes led by guides which begin and end with prayer.
If you're working on similar programs locally, have you considered sharing them with others?
