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...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
God of Beauty, You created the world and all its inhabitants. You moved among your people to break the bonds of their oppressors, While also holding them accountable when they sought to oppress others. You sent your son Jesus Christ to heal and challenge, and he died...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources, TXIPL Website
Wherever you turn, whatever you see, whatever you touch – God’s presence is there. It is God’s handiwork. Though we do not think of God with hands and face, just as God -shaped Adam in perfect form [15:29] , so God has shaped everything on earth [55:7]. It...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 6, 2018 | Climate Justice, Resources
Resurrection is a central principle to Christian faith and features heavily in the book of Revelation. Throughout the apocalypse shown to John of Patmos, God wages war against Satan, causing massive amounts of destruction to the earth. It ends with a resurrection; a...