Lenten Devotion

Reflecting upon my Lenten Discipline (by Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin, a teacher/leader in our Biocommons course)

[Along with the Wilderness Way Community and its friends, Pastor Solveig Nilsen-Goodin’s Lenten discipline is to spend 10-20 minutes OUTSIDE, every day for 40 days in prayer/meditation/just being (rain or shine)! What follows is her reflection on her practice of

The Fire Within. Good News: We All Got It! (by Angie Hummel an EcoFaith Leader participating in the Biocommons Course)

I am Lutheran and Minnesotan. A collective sigh: Ahhhhh! Thus, some may assume I am the epitome of a nice, considerate, poised, ever-smiley human. Except there’s just one clink in the armor: My ancestors did not immigrate to the new

Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke’s Presentation to the Biocommons course – Part 1 of 3

Tevye’s Lament Ecology of Grace and Justice: Organizing in the BioCommons Presentation February 22, 2013 St. Andrew Lutheran Church, Beaverton, OR Bishop Dave Brauer-Rieke, Oregon Synod, ELCA Like a Fiddler on the Roof Our understanding of the world is

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 #2: Pressures on Families/ the Great Destruction (by Dick Harmon, a lead teacher in our “Ecology of Grace and Justice – Organizing in the Biocommons Course”)

“What are the pressures on our families?” This is one of the initial questions that leaders and organizers use in building broad-based organizations. It can also serve as the first of several steps toward understanding how the Great Destruction impacts

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

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