Our Children's Trust
A sermon delivered at the Wheat Ridge Congregation, UCC, Wheat Ridge, CO, 10/15/17 Rev. Peter Sawtell, executive director, Eco-Justice Ministries
This morning, I want to explore a question that I hear fairly often in church circles. It is a question with all sorts of moral and ethical implications... What sort of number are you going to write on that pledge card?
A number of years ago, at my home church in Denver, we did an unusual thing one Sunday... we played with the idea: what would it look like if churches did fundraising the way public radio stations do?
As I recall, we interrupted the service six times in one hour – including in the middle of the sermon. We harangued folk about making their pledge of support right now... It was really annoying, and it was years after that before anybody dared to suggest that the church talks about money too much.
ONE YEAR LATER :
As I recall, we interrupted the service six times in one hour – including in the middle of the sermon. We harangued folk about making their pledge of support right now... It was really annoying, and it was years after that before anybody dared to suggest that the church talks about money too much.
ONE YEAR LATER :
1,000 sermons: Clergy invokes kids' case from the pulpit
In the months leading up to the trial phase of Juliana v. United States, a network of clergy, including Sawtell, has been preaching about climate change and invoking the lawsuit from the pulpit...
The campaign's goal: Deliver 1,000 sermons nationwide that reference Juliana before and during the trial... with help from the retired Rev. Dr. Jim Antal of Massachusetts, to galvanize support for the plaintiffs...
The campaign's goal: Deliver 1,000 sermons nationwide that reference Juliana before and during the trial... with help from the retired Rev. Dr. Jim Antal of Massachusetts, to galvanize support for the plaintiffs...
"In a period of only three months, January through March, Boston experienced its first- and third-highest-ever high tides since records began being kept in 1825," Antal, wearing a green bow tie and golden stole, told the congregation.
After detailing the damage and cost of hurricanes and flooding in 2017, he turned to regions in the Arctic, Greenland and Russia, where temperatures were "50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal."
[ The Supreme Court was pretty annoyed too- Chief Justice Roberts stayed discovery and trial of the kids' lawsuit today.]
[ The Supreme Court was pretty annoyed too- Chief Justice Roberts stayed discovery and trial of the kids' lawsuit today.]
