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Creation Care and Black Lives Matter

Creation Care and Black Lives Matter

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | August 24, 2020 | BLMcreation carepeacemaking | Blog, Creation Care, Peacemaking Task Force, Racial Justice

The Peacemaking Task Force of Albany Presbytery, at its August Zoom meeting, decided to focus on two major issues, Creation Care and Black Lives Matter, giving them each sustained attention. The more we discussed these two issues, the more we realized how much they... Read more
Is Listening a Lost Art?

Is Listening a Lost Art?

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | July 20, 2020 | BLMContemplationcreation careListeningmindfulness | Blog, COVID19, Creation Care, Equality

There are so many words and so much information flying around that it gets overwhelming. Our world is increasingly hyped and we go along with it. A digital world and a life of multi-tasking set us up for this. One result of living in a constant hyper state is that we... Read more
The Power of Liturgy for Sustaining Your Creation Care Work

The Power of Liturgy for Sustaining Your Creation Care Work

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | January 20, 2020 | creation carepeacemaking | Blog, Creation Care, Peacemaking Task Force

Seeing a Christmas tree beside the road the day after Christmas I was reminded that, for some, Christmas is just one day. After that it is “Christmas is over. Let’s get on with things”. I got to thinking how rich a liturgical life is. Those who keep such a life know... Read more
The Season of Creation

The Season of Creation

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | September 1, 2019 | creation care | Blog, Peacemaking Task Force

In January of this year, the Peacemaking Task Force presented a document to the Presbytery, “A Way Forward for Creation Care”, which was well received. The document opened with twelve brief statements of belief followed with a lifting up of the four key areas of the... Read more
It All Begins With Awe

It All Begins With Awe

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | January 31, 2019 | creation care | Blog, Peacemaking Task Force

Staring at the computer screen trying to write an article, my mind goes blank. Hearing bird activity, I shift my eyes to the window and see a brilliant red Northern Cardinal, a Blue Jay, and a few Mourning Doves, their contrasting color made ever more vivid against... Read more
Eco-Reformation: A Book Study

Eco-Reformation: A Book Study

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | April 2, 2018 | creationcreation careEarth Day | Blog, Peacemaking Task Force

Every now and then a book comes along that is “spot on” for the times. “Eco-Reformation: Grace and Hope for a Planet in Peril,” is such a book. Bill McKibben writes a very urgent but hopeful foreword followed by a fine preface by the editors, Lisa E. Dahill &... Read more
Awe Keeps Us Alive

Awe Keeps Us Alive

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | January 14, 2018 | awecreationcreation careowls | Blog, Peacemaking Task Force

Picture: A snowy owl in flight. By Bert de Tilly, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Have you ever seen a Snowy Owl in the wild?  If you have you will never forget it. There was an early January... Read more
Eco-Reformation: A Book Study

Creation Care Begins With Self Care

by Rev. Larry Deyss, HR | August 27, 2017 | anxietycreation carepeacemakingself carestress | Blog

Creation Care is not just about caring for the earth. Creation Care is also about us.  It is about you and me.  We are part of creation. We need to be nourished by the very earth for which we are to exercise care.   I cannot think of anything that is more important... Read more
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