The Art of Creation Care with Wellington Heights Community Church

I really enjoyed having this conversation with Pastor Keeyon Carter of Wellington Heights Community Church. Pastor Keeyon has written curriculum the church is studying called "The Art of Creation Care," and invited me to join him for this podcast episode that's up now. Everything said on this podcast could be explored more and more deeply, but we're just touching the surface here!

Some things referenced on this episode:

Quotes:

“O Holy Spirit, you are the mighty way in which every thing that is in the heavens, on the earth, and under the earth, is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness.” -Hildegard of Bingen, 12th-century abbess and mystic

“We are not at liberty to use what God has lodged in our hands as we please, but as God pleases, who alone is the possessor of heaven and earth and the Lord of every creature” -John Wesley, founder of the Methodist movement

Scriptures:

Job chapters 38-40 God speaks to Job from the whirlwind

Leviticus 25 sabbath of the land, year of Jubilee

Leviticus 26: 34-35 consequences for not giving the land sabbath

Matthew 6:19-21,25-35 “do not store up treasures for yourself on earth; consider the lilies”

James 1:17 “every good and perfect gift is from God”

Links:

Compost and food waste in Cedar Rapids & Linn County

https://www.cedar-rapids.org/residents/utilities/curbside_compost.php

https://www.solidwasteagency.org/compost-yard-waste

The Buy Nothing Project

https://buynothingproject.org/about

Local Buy Nothing groups:

Buy Nothing Hiawatha/NE Cedar Rapids, IA 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bnhiawatha/

Buy Nothing Marion/NE Cedar Rapids, IA

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bnmarion/

Buy Nothing Cedar Rapids (West)/Fairfax, IA

https://www.facebook.com/groups/870608353764774

Buy Nothing Cedar Rapids (SE), IA

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1043765506343402

Buy Nothing App: search for it on Apple Appstore or Google Play