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Take Action with the Southern Environmental Law Center


Two harmful, unnecessary, and expensive proposed methane gas pipeline projects — the South System Expansion 4 and Mississippi Crossing — would cut through approximately 500 miles across Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, threatening some of our most beloved landscapes along the way.


Click here to say "no" to a fossil fuel superhighway across Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi! Read about more advocacy opportunities from SELC and signup for regular updates on environmental justice issues throughout the Province IV region.


Find additional information on the proposed pipelines from other advocacy groups, including interactive maps, here and here.

Creation Care Network Monthly Gatherings

Provinces IV and V

Monday, March 9 at 12 p.m. CT



Lent and Lament:

Creation's Wisdom, Gifts, and Guidance

 

With all that is going on in the world today, our hearts may feel dry and wind-blown with swirling frustration, anger, anxiety, and grief. In Lent, Spirit calls us to enter into these sacred truths, to follow Jesus into the desert and emulate our teacher's own time of pause, prayer, and preparation in the wilderness. Like the harsh terrain where Jesus walked, the spiritual landscapes we engage in this season are full of tension and challenge - but they are also formational. Join The Rev. Payton Hoegh, Program Director of the Center for Spirituality in Nature and Chaplain for Disaster Recovery and Resilience for the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, to explore Creation's wisdom, gifts, and guidance for honoring lament and nurturing the resilience and imagination we need to persist as faithful healers for our wounded and wonderful world.


Free monthly gatherings on Zoom featuring mentors and leaders on Creation Care and the intersections of evangelism, discipleship, and justice. 2nd Thursday of each month, 6:30-8 pm CT.

Resources for Earth Day

New from Creation Justice Ministries!

"The Canopy of Creation: Trees, Faith, and the Work of Justice"


Planting trees with an uncertain future is an act of faith.

Planting trees in a time of despair is an act of hope.

Planting trees that all can enjoy is an act of love.


Other Earth Day Resources


Earth Day 2026 is Wednesday, April 22. This is a perfect time to spotlight green activities in your parish. Check out these websites for other great ideas for planning Earth Day activities at churches. And don't forget to encourage clergy to preach about Creation Care on April 19 or 26!




  • Watch for more Earth Day resources in our April newsletter as faith-based groups update their offerings.

Upcoming Events

The Creation Care Compline is creatively adapted from the service in the Book of Common Prayer by a different team of facilitators each month. Mindfulness of God's creation is woven throughout the peaceful service. Creation Care Compline is generally held the first Monday of each month and is a partnership between the Green Caucus and the Mission Program Office of The Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop’s Office. This month's Compline:


Monday, March 2

8:00 p.m. ET/7:00 p.m. CT


Join Episcopalians across the Church for an evening of prayer and meditation. Register here to receive a monthly reminder, or simply join each month's session using the button below.

March 2 at 6pm CT


Join Creation Justice Ministries for an advocacy 101 training - an introduction for beginner advocates who want to take their advocacy a bit further and a refresher for folks who feel a bit rusty. 

 

🌏 The role people of faith play in advocacy right now

🌏 Tips for advocating at the federal level 

🌏 Ways to build relationships with your Members of Congress 

🌏 Ideas to engage your community to take action 

 

In this time of immense uncertainty, grief and for many sacred rage, people of faith have an important role to play. Together, we will plant seeds of hope for loving God’s creation and our neighbors. 

For Augustine, love of God is inseparable from both love of neighbor and love of God’s creation. This webinar will explore the crucial roles of humanity’s conversation with nature and humanity’s essential place in the community of nature in Augustine’s theology of the beauty and goodness of creation.


Jim Peters is Professor of Philosophy at The University of the South in

Sewanee, Tennessee. He is also an accomplished nature photographer. Please join us for this important conversation. The event is free, but registration is required.

Looking Further Ahead

We Want to Hear from You

Share the Story of What Is Happening in Your Congregations


Be an inspiration to others! We want to hear how your parishes are caring for creation through worship, education, outreach and advocacy. Send your story to the email below, and someone will be in touch to learn all the details.

About the Task Force


For more information, contact

DioMS Creation Care at

tracy.stebbins@gmail.com