Logo of MEESC
 

Environmental Stewardship Commission
(MEESC)

Episcopal Church in Minnesota
 
Coat of Arms of Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota
 
Shield of Episcopal Church

Upcoming Activities:

Next Meeting:

We meet quarterly close to the solstice and equinox.

Annual Special Projects

Resolutions:

Resolution on the Spirituality of Food Production

Resolution on Church Buildings and Grounds

Resolution on Creation Season
Resolution on Green Congregations

 

 

Creation Season 2008 (Year A)
October 5 – 26, 2008

Proper 25, Year A
(October 26, 2008)

Special Recognition of the Place of Food in our Lives:
Food as
Sacrament/Holy Element

Welcome! We're glad you're planning on observing a liturgical season of creation. We have prepared some materials for you to use in worship, teaching, and personal reflection for this Sunday.

The list of Creation Season resources below is designed to help you find additional information that can apply to the food themes of this Sunday for use in sermon preparation and Religious Education activities of all ages.

Materials for this week' study

Borg, Marcus, Jesus in Contemporary Scholarship (Trinity Press International, 1994), ISBN-13: 9781563380945

Crossan, John Dominic, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1994), ISBN-13: 9780060616625
Phillips, Kevin, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (NY: Broadway Books, 2002), ISBN-13: 9780767905343
Russell, Letty M., Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective - A Theology (Westminster, 1974) , ISBN-13: 9780664249915
Shiva, Vandana, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2002), especially Chapter 5, "Food and Water," ISBN-13: 9780896086500
Sider, Ronald, Cup of Water, Bread of Life (Zondervan, 1994), ISBN-13: 9780310406013.
Wink, Walter, Engaging the Powers (Fortress, 1992), ISBN-13: 9780800626464

Back to Proper 25 Main Page

 

Note: The List of additional resources was prepared by John G. Gibbs, PhD.

 

We welcome your comments. Please address your comments or additional reflections to any MEESC member, or mail them to:


MEESC
c/o C. Morello
4451 Lakeside Drive
Eveleth, MN 55743-4400 USA

The MEESC assumes that all correspondence received is for publication on this web site. If your comments are not for publication, please so note on your correspondence. The MEESC reserves the right to decide which items are included on the website.
   

This page last updated 2008-08-07.
 
This page maintained for the MEESC by Logo of IRIS Enterprises.
 

Please send any corrections to
the MEESC WebVerger or our Web Team