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Compassion in Action: And the Spiritual Ecology of Translating Sky Dragons into Power Grids

January 27, 2017
By Kyle Lemle
Spiritual Ecology Fellowship

In the time when the nuns sing before the birds, the sun waits patiently as if it would not come at all. Silence given voice in an ocean of sound lapping in all directions - the thick buzz of the living, the chanting street dogs, the great crash of becoming one - the sound of the Himalayas being born to our North -...

Tips to sustain ourselves in our stumbling toward sustainability

January 27, 2017
By Donna Schaper
National Catholic Reporter

When exclamatory news alerts like this one appear in our inbox, most of us want out of the box:

BREAKING NEWS ALERT (...

The Indigenous Environmental Network Responds to Presidential Memorandum for Approving KXL & DAPL

January 25, 2017
Native News Online

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, President Trump signed five executive actions, two of which will advance construction of the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. The other three memorandums will serve to expedite environmental reviews for high priority projects.

The following is a statement...

Native Americans condemn Trump's executive action on pipeline

January 25, 2017
By Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service
National Catholic Reporter

President Trump’s executive orders advancing the construction of pipelines are drawing condemnation from the Native American and religious groups that have opposed them.

The Spirit of Standing Rock on the Move

By Stephanie Woodard
YES! Magazine
January 24, 2017

YES! Special Report

People from more than 300 tribes traveled to the North Dakota plains to pray and march in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. Back home, each tribe faces its own version of the “black snake” and a centuries-old struggle to survive.

The ecology of burial: Choices reflect beliefs about life after death

January 21, 2017
By Robert Duncan, Catholic News Service
National Catholic Reporter

Vatican City - In a craftsman’s workshop on the edge of Rome’s Campo Verano cemetery, two designers are working to revive what they see as a dying art: burial.

Unlike the masons who make the cemetery’s gravestones and...

American sisters tackling climate care resolve to stay the course

January 19, 2017
By Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans
Global Sisters Report

Women Are 'Backbone' of Native Actions Against Dakota Pipeline

January 16, 2017
teleSUR

Several Native American women spoke with teleSUR about their role in the protests against the oil project in North Dakota.

The actions and protests against the Dakota Access pipeline could not have yielded success if it had not been for the participation of the Native American women water protectors as they took on a...

Eucharistic prayer in the 21st century

January 12, 2017
By Thomas Reese
National Catholic Reporter

One of the greatest liturgical challenges of the church in the 21st century is to figure out how to do liturgy in a way that is meaningful to people in a post-Darwin, post-Einstein, post-Hubble world.  

Traditional liturgical prayer, based on biblical imagery, presumes a pre-scientific worldview where Earth is...

Utah's new national monument marks big win for the protection of Indigenous cultural sites

By permanently protecting an area rich in indigenous cultural history, Obama has shown that some things are worth more than money.

By Jacqueline Keeler
Nation of Change
January 10, 2017

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