Greetings from Oregon, fellow environmental lovers and leaders in the fight for justice! My name is Rie Tanabe, I’m from Salem Oregon, and one of my first memories ever is standing beneath great canopies of Oregon White Oak trees in
“Hold The Line” (by EcoFaith Intern Coordinator Sarah Holst from Garden Church in Duluth, MN)
ACT Together: Sarah Holst’s Speech at the ‘Hold the Line March and Hearing to Stop Line 3 Pipeline’ On September 28, 2017, hundreds of people gathered in front of the Minnesota State Capitol to oppose the building of Enbridge’s Line
Eco-Reformation – “…I would still plant my apply tree.” (blog post by Cherice Bock & Solveig Nilsen-Goodin)
Earth Day at Eloheh and the EcoReformation by Cherice Bock & Solveig Nilsen-Goodin (Originally posted on Watershed Discipleship blog, permission to repost by authors.) On Earth Day, April 22, 2017, we planted 150 trees at Eloheh Farm. Three groups worked together to
“Thoughts on Hope” (by Pastor Peg Schultz-Akerson from Lutheran Church of the Master, Los Angeles)
Hi and gratitude to you creation-caring- practitioners of EcoFaith Recovery! As the map goes, I’m looking up to you in the Pacific Northwest from Southern California. I (Peg) serve as co-chair (with Jane Affonso) of the Southwest CA Synod GreenFaith
“Our Connection To The Land & Summer Reflections” (by EcoFaith Intern Sarah Kretschmann)
Hey there! My name is Sarah Kretschmann and I am just beginning my second year as a student at Luther Seminary where I am pursuing my Masters of Divinity and ordination through the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin. At the core
“What We Pay Attention to Grows”: EcoFaith Recovery Internship as a Fractal for Healing (By Intern & Intern Coordinator Sarah Holst, from the Garden Church in Duluth, MN)
“What We Pay Attention to Grows”: EcoFaith Recovery Internship as a Fractal for Healing Wild, turbulent waters again surround us after the last weeks’ events at Charlottesville and White Supremacist protests all around the country. The Spirit stirs within us
Religion Identity and Vocation (by Intern Chloe)
A couple months have passed since my last blog post. Now that the website is fully functional, I’ve kept busy adding text posts, editing dates, and writing “how-to website guides” for future interns. School at California Lutheran has especially kept
Sharing Success (by Intern Bradley Seibel)
Hello fellow leaders! My name is Bradley and I’m part of the 2016 Eco-Faith internship cohort. There have been so many challenges and twists and turns in my journey of finding a way to instill meaningful community changes. I was
Stoking the Sacred Fire (by Intern Jason Wood)
“Sometimes you have no other choice than to stand.” In a way, they seemed like such mundane words. No elaborate imagery. No eloquent vocabulary. Nothing that probably hadn’t been said by someone else, somewhere else. And yet, her
Winter Break & Website Revamp (by Intern Chloe Mankin)
The last four months since my original blog post have been busy. My winter break was dedicated to Jimmy Johns’ and revamping the old EcoFaith website. My mom and I would sit in the living room; I would be in