Congratulations to our 2023 Congregational Award Recipients!
Inaugural Greening Congregation Awards
Category: Sermon
A Commitment to Justice Means Remembering Our Tribes
A D’var Torah by Rabbi Josh Weisman for Parshat Bamidbar, originally published on T'ruah: the rabbinic call for human rights' website.
The Church Effect: Making Every Day Earth Day
A sermon by Jessica Zimmerle, preached at Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry, Thursday April 25, 2019. Text: John 20: 19-31 For many of us, this may have felt like a long couple of weeks. One of my Facebook friends…
Take Back Your Time: Celebration of St. Francis with John De Graaf
Earth Ministry was proud to host author and international speaker John de Graaf for our 20th annual Celebration of St. Francis. John, co-author of Affluenza and What’s the Economy For, Anyway?, made the case that Americans work too much and…
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Did Francis Have a Weed Whacker?
by Rev. Paul Graves, Sandpoint, ID
Changing Forms of Light
by William Scarvie, Bainbridge Island, WA
Margins and Hope
by Dr. Gil Waldkoenig, Gettysburg
Winner of the People's Choice Award
Abundance
by Rev. Stephanie Johnson, New Haven, CT
Winner of the Franciscan Philanthropist Award
Touching the Resurrected Christ
by Tanya Marcovna Barnett
Text: John 20:19-31
Focusing on the question, where is hope, this sermon turns to the resurrection of Jesus for answers.
When a Leaf Needs to Speak
by Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Northampton, MA
Grappling Green
by Rev. Doug Bland, Tempe, AZ
Earth’s Answer to a Curious Journey
by Minister S. Emmanuel Epps, Brooklyn, NY
Winner of the People's Choice Award
I Worship the Author of the Horrendous Space Kablooie
by Rev. John Helmiere, Seattle, WA
Winner of the Franciscan Philanthropist Award
Christ the Hope of All Creation…and Humans, Too
by Rev. Dr. Henry Langknecht
Text: John 20:19-31
Asks the question, "How much did Thomas see before he believed?" If Jesus scars are humanity's and the earth's scars too, then God's mission in the universe extends forgiveness, reconciliation, and wholeness to all of creation.
Keepers of God’s Beloved World
by Rev. Anne Hall, Seattle, WA
Winner of the People's Choice Award
Text: John 3:14-21
Calls for action to end climate change by examining the world's state in light of the most popular verse in the Bible, "For God so loved the world."