I happened to be at the UN early one morning, to drop off information about a side panel discussion and noticed the sheer volume of discarded cups and half empty crumpled water bottles littering the tables in the…
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers—all things have been…
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will…
In 1989, the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I proclaimed 1 September to be a day of prayer for Creation. In time, the period between 1 September and the feast day of St Francis on 4 October was deemed the ecumenical Season of Creation. This year…
From his home in Assisi, St. Francis wrote a prayer of thanksgiving called the Canticle of Creation, which begins “Praise be to you, my Lord, for all your…
PINE RIDGE, USA/GENEVA – I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during a time when families were still living off the land. Many of the people still gathered their food from the land, plants and wildlife but this way of life…
The climate change crisis has created a dilemma for our society. For many years we have been trying to find solutions to combat climate change and its effects…