by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources
Mother and Father of all creatures, whose dwelling extends beyond this earth, let no one trivialize your being. Let your order prevail. Let your intentions come to be for creation and for yourself. Give us, each day, no more than we need, and forgive us when we take...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
In this section of Leviticus, the teaching of God to Moses instructs God’s people that when someone commits a crime or sin against another person, they should not only restore what was taken in full but add one fifth to it. They should also bring an offering to God to...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
In this section of Paul’s second letter to the church in Thessalonia, Paul admonishes the church for reaping food that they themselves have not worked to earn. Paul seems worried about those disenfranchised being taken advantage of by those who would follow in the way...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
With the iconic verse from Micah 4:3, we are given a vision of hope for a time when we will turn our weapons of violence into tools of harvest, moving from destruction to life, war to peace. How might this message be viewed today? At COP? “Each will sit under his own...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
O Belovéd of the Beloved, pure being and clear light, you have no eyes yet you see every microbe churning the soil. You have no ears, yet you hear every child laugh and infant cry. You have no hands, yet every nesting bird rests in the palm of your hand. You have no...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
By Rev. Bill Somplatsky-Jarman, PC(USA) Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministries O God, our Creator and Redeemer, we come to you perplexed, contrite, worried, searching, tired, in need of your presence to restore our hope. We struggle to take the steps necessary to...
