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Welcome to November, the month that brings us the Feast of All Saints, the holiday we call Thanksgiving, and the beginning of the season of Advent. All celebrations with rich heritages. Each one calling us to fundamental goodness. But if we are not careful, each can also keep a devastating silence. If the celebrated saints are only human saints. If Thanksgiving ignores the ecological (and indigenous) catastrophe to come. If Advent fails to hope also for the joy of all creation.

Each season of celebration is an opportunity for a wider perspective, a more generous hope, and a deeper love. Let’s keep thinking together, working together, and praying together that we all might come to fuller fellowship and healing solidarity with all living things. Have a blessed November.

Jerry Cappel

The Center for Deep Green Faith

Province IV Environmental Ministry

We are actively recruiting people from around the diocese to help set up the eco-region program. If you have time and wish to help, please click on the link and sign up to share your energy and enthusiasm for conserving our Gulf waters.

https://forms.gle/MVfobJd2gR8gAyPK7

For an idea of what is involved, check out this recent training video (Passcode: 3L7^.^8E). If you are unable to help at this time, but know others who might be interested, please share these links with them.

Provinces IV and V

Monday, November 9

12 p.m. CT

"Animals Matter: A Theological Case for Incorporating Animals into Creation Care"

with Lois Wye

"It is my hope that in learning to fulfill our responsibility to the animals with mercy and compassion, we can not only make the world a better place for animals, but we can become more fully human as God intended us to be, growing into God's image and drawing closer to Him as we care for what is His." LW

Lois will lead us in a conversation about incorporating animals into creation care, the place of animals in creation, and God’s desire that we care for these fellow creatures as stewards. Learn more from Lois’s blog, Dominion in the Image of God.

Lois Wye is a retired environmental attorney whose career included work in both the private and public sectors. In 2013, she earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Wesley Theological Seminary, where she focused on animals and theology. She has served on the boards of the Washington Animal Rescue League and the Humane Rescue Alliance in Washington, DC, as well as Creature Kind, an organization dedicated to elevating animal welfare issues in Christian contexts. She also served on the Episcopal Diocese of Washington’s Creation Care Task Force. Lois lives in Washington, DC, and spends summers in St. Michaels, Maryland, with her husband, two cats, and dog, tending her pollinator-friendly native gardens.

ECCG Deep Dive

"Good News Gardens: What are they, should you have one?"

Thursday, November 12

6:30 PM CT

Guest mentors: Jerusalem Jackson Greer and Brian Sellers Petersen

Episcopal Church Creation Care Monthly Call

Wednesday, November 25

2 p.m. CT

Join these calls to hear from The Episcopal Church’s public policy and witness and mission program teams, as well as voices from across the church, on issues related to care of creation. Spanish interpretation is available.

November Deep Green Webinar:

"Finite and Loving It" with Caleb Cray Haynes

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

7:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CT

In the age of AI, space capitalism, and environmental exploitation, what does flourishing look like? Is it possible that we are created for a life that isn't only heaven-bound, but also earth-bound?

Join us for a conversation with writer and speaker Caleb Cray Haynes, host of The ecoChristian Podcast, co-founder and director of Nazarenes for Creation Care, an organization designed to equip the church for engaging in the call to “serve and keep” creation, author of Garbage Theology, and co-author of Keeping Creation, a 5-week study on creation care. Register below.

December Deep Green Webinar

"Displaced: The Ecology of Exile" with Kristina Knight

Tuesday, December 15, 2026

7:30 PM ET/6:30 PM CT

Join us for a conversation with Kristina Knight, MSW, therapist and Duke Divinity M.Div. graduate as she explores how the theme of exile runs through scripture, and how our sense of "displacement"--from the land we live on and communities we inhabit--negatively impacts our psychological and spiritual health. Then, learn how faith in the incarnate Christ allows us to be whole and home with each other and with the created world.

Kristina Knight is a licensed clinical social worker who works as a psychotherapist for adults processing trauma, grief, and spiritual/religious abuse. Register below.

Explore the many resources available from Episcopal Relief and Development, including their Abundant Life Garden Project curriculum for elementary school children and Faith Leader Toolkits that include "Taking Action with Climate Resilience."

Check out these easy ways to advocate on behalf of creation:

• Champion our public lands with Outdoor Alliance - https://www.outdooralliance.org/
• Help protect our Southern forests with the Dogwood Alliance: https://dogwoodalliance.org/
• Protect endangered species and support the Gulf Life Act: https://healthygulf.org/action_alerts/support-the-protect-gulf-life-act/
• And VOTE on November 3 to protect all of God's creation!