Standing with Standing Rock: It’s more than just a pipeline
Part 1: History
When did it start? What does it all mean? How are we called to respond? The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) snakes 1,700 miles from the Bakken Oil Fields of North Dakota to Southern Illinois and that, if completed, would transport 450,000 barrels of fracked, highly volatile Bakken crude through land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux and under the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
|
|
California: San Leandro church goes solar
Local congregation to install 9.24kw solar power system
[All Saints Episcopal Church press release | November 18] This month, as part of a comprehensive greening project, All Saints Episcopal Church in San Leandro, California, will have a 9.24kw solar power system installed on the church. This system will include 33 panels and will generate enough electricity to cover the church’s entire electricity bill. This greening project at the church has also brought heightened awareness around recycling and other energy-efficiency improvements to the congregation.
|
|
Evangelism matters to the world, say 400+ Episcopalians, Anglicans
Conference connected, inspired participants, and gave them practical tools
[Episcopal News Service | November 21 – Dallas, Texas] The slogan on the swag bag read: “Episcopal Evangelist. It’s not an oxymoron.” While some people might think that an Episcopal evangelist is a rare breed, more than 400 evangelism veterans and fledgling practitioners spent Nov. 18-19 being inspired, finding camaraderie and learning new ways to live up to that slogan during the Evangelism Matters conference at Church of the Transfiguration here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
