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 Adrian Shelley | Dec 5, 2018 | Climate Justice, TXIPL Website
This afternoon I attended a side event panel discussion entitled “Climate Science for Policy.” This panel discussed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chance (IPCC) Special report, World Meteorological Organization(WMO) statement on the state of the global...
by Bee Moorhead | Dec 5, 2018 | Climate Justice, Economic Justice, Economic Participation, Global Climate Policy, TXIPL Website
One of the biggest themes of COP 24 is a commitment to Just Transition, the ideology that as we transition to clean and renewable energy, we do so in a manner that does not further disenfranchise those who are already vulnerable. Indigenous people, people of color,...