Creation Justice Resources - Educational Resources for All Ages

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CHRISTIAN EDUCATION RESOURCES DEVELOPED FOR EARTH DAY SUNDAY, USEFUL YEAR-ROUND
Each year, Creation Justice Ministries comes out with a new Christian education resource before Earth Day, focused on a timely theme. In 2020, our theme will be "The Fierce Urgency of Now."

• The Fierce Urgency Of Now (2020)
• The Next Generation Rises (2019)
• Sense of Place (2018)
• Environmental Justice with Indigenous Peoples (2017)
• Care for God's Creatures (2016)
• Sustainable Food in a Changing Climate (2015) 
• Water, Holy Water (2014)
• Ethics of Energy (2012)​
• Where Two or More are Gathered: Eco-Justice as Community (2011)
• Sacred Spaces and an Abundant Life: Worship Spaces as Stewardship (2010)
• Celebrating and Caring For God's Creation Earth Day Sunday Resource (2009)
• Climate and Poverty Earth Day Sunday Resource (2008)
• Our Daily Bread: Harvesters of Hope and Gardeners of Eden (2007)
• Through the Eye of a Hurricane: Rebuilding Just Communities (2006)
• Sacred Oceans Seas (2005)
• Life-Giving Breath of God: Protecting the Sacred Gift of Air (2004)

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
Featured Resource: Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Creation
The Healthy Kids, Healthy Churches, Healthy Creation curriculum seeks to provide Christian congregations and faith groups with an easy-to-use guide for initiating conversations in their communities about environmental health and how our consumer choices such as food, building materials, and personal care products impact human health and Creation. Note: Use the link above to also download a version of the resource adapted for Massachusetts.
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• Healthy Aging for an Abundant Life
• Healthy Spa Workshop: Guide and Toolkit for People of Faith
• Mindful Living: Human Health, Pollution, and Toxics
• Made in the Image of God: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
• Cleanliness and Godliness Toolkit
• Sacred Food: Youth Sunday School and Group Activities
• At The Lord's Table: Everyday Thanksgiving

​TOOLKITS
Lent 2020
Building a Firm Foundation: A Creation-Friendly Building Guide for Churches

52 WAYS TO CARE FOR CREATION 
Master Blog Post: 52 Ways To Care for Creation 
En español: Utiliza 52 maneras de cuidar de la creación

• January Bulletin Insert
• February Bulletin Insert
• March Bulletin Insert
• April Bulletin Insert
• May Bulletin Insert
• June Bulletin Insert
  
• July Bulletin Insert
  
• August Bulletin Insert
  

FACT SHEETS

• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Summary
• A Faith Leader's Guide to the the 4th National Climate Assessment

These guides were created by the Inter-Religious Staff Community Energy & Ecology Working Group for people of faith to understand the assessment. 

CLIMATE AND ENERGY RESOURCES
Featured Resource: Faithful Budget, Faithful Stewardship: An Analysis of Energy Subsidies and Poverty Assistance Programs
This resource examines the priorities that are reflected in our budgets and their moral implications

• Lead by Example: Climate Justice Congregations in the Southeast
• Reflecting on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
• Energy Stewardship: Using Smart Grids and Emerging Technologies for Protecting God's Creation
• Seeking God's Grace for the Gulf
• The Gulf Coast: Seeking Rebirth and Resurrection
• African Americans and Climate Change
• Climate and Church: How Global Climate Change Will Impact Core Church Ministries
• Just Climate: Study Guide for Adult Christian Education
• Bottom Line Ministries that Matter: Congregational Stewardship with Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies
• Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice
• It's God's World: Christians, Care for Creation and Global Warming
• Introduction to Carbon Fasting
• Opening the Letter: A Congregational Guide to God's Earth is Sacred

LAND & WATER STEWARDSHIP RESOURCES
Featured Resource: Out of the Wilderness: Building Christian Faith and Keeping God's Creation
The wilderness is deeply woven into Christianity and other faith traditions. They were central to the spiritual journeys of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. This new resource will help us in our modern day efforts to reflect peacefully and reconnect with the Creator through study, worship and congregational action.

• Rooted in God's Word and Lands: A Celebration of the Earth That Nourishes Us
• Opening the Book of Nature
• Water Stewards: A Toolkit for Congregational Care of Local Watersheds
• For I Was Thirsty: A Resource for World Water Day
• Tending the Garden: Stewardship of Biodiversity and Endangered Species
• Endangered Species Bulletin