I’ve been thinking a lot lately about land. Mostly because my husband and I don’t actually have any land upon which to actively do anything… plant, till, harvest, play. We’re apartment-dwellers for now, with hopes of one day in our
My Story (by Cecil Denney, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons Course)
Cecil Denney is part of the Fall 2014 Organizing in the Biocommons teaching team and a member at Lake Oswego United Methodist Church. **** My Story There is a point to this story. If you look around, there are a lot
“It’s the Children, Folks!” Reflections from EcoFaith Leader Dick Harmon
[Note from Admin: This writing is from Dick Harmon, one of the facilitators for Organizing in the Biocommons Winter 2014 classes. Organizing in the Biocommons is for clergy and lay leaders of spiritual communities, congregations and networks who are asking:
EcoFaith Youth Camp (by EcoFaith Intern, Nathan Holst)
Hi all, I know it’s been some time since I last wrote a post here, but I want to share that it’s not because my internship hasn’t been moving forward. There’s been a lot of movement and exciting things happening
NOTES FOR BREATHERS #3: Impacts of Pressures on Families & Institutions (by Dick Harmon, a lead teacher in our “Ecology of Grace and Justice – Organizing in the Biocommons Course”)
Imagine that we’re in another session of the leadership development workshops. By now, participants are getting to know each other, so it’s safe to take the next step, to name together the impact of these pressures on our families. After
NOTES FOR BREATHERS #1: The “No-Yes” Of Our Situation (by Dick Harmon, a leader in our “Ecology of Grace and Justice – Organizing in the Biocommons Course”)
In the first session of the current Organizing in the Biocommons class, Rev. Solveig Nilsen-Goodin raised this question: “What’s really going on?” These Notes take a look at that question. If you’re really breathing these days, it means that you
Join us for the next “Organizing in the Biocommons” course beginning Sept. 28th (Solveig Nilsen-Goodin)
By Solveig Nilsen-Goodin My experience of participating in the Organizing in the Biocommons Course was like wandering in the wilderness: assumptions and frameworks constantly disintegrating and re-integrating as I struggled to understand the core of what is “wrong:” what is
Organizing in the Biocommons Course by Cecil Denney
From Cecil Denney (Member of the Lake Oswego United Methodist Church and Metropolitan Alliance for Common Good): I heard about the Organizing in the Biocommons class from a good friend, who knew a couple of the instructors and I wanted