Category: Peace

Revisioning Community

Architect, designer, and author, William McDonough, who is known for his work in sustainability, asks a powerful question, “How do we love all the children, of all species, for all time?”
Coming from the Earth Care Ministry perspective, the answer to this question sounds like an Ecotopia.  However, a sustainable community, where people are in harmony with the earth and with each other, is an essential part of a peaceful future.  What does a peaceful world that works for all look like?

What Can Nature Teach Us About Peace?

September 2008, was the first time I participated in Unity’s Day of Prayer. I had volunteered to meditate and pray from 10-11am.  With the bitter rhetoric of election politics swirling around, over flowing from the media outlets into neighborhoods and signs on the corner,… Continue Reading “What Can Nature Teach Us About Peace?”

Changing Channels

Chances are, this year on the weekend of Sept 11th, you saw countless footage of planes flying into the World Trade Center, or the protests at Ground Zero about the controversy of whether a Muslim Community Center should be built in Lower Manhattan. Did… Continue Reading “Changing Channels”