Dr. Mishka Lysack, assistant professor at the University of Calgary and Anglican priest brought together leaders of many different faiths in an ecumenical event in Calgary. The conference in April 2010 examined the issue ‘Climate Change as a moral issue’. Four events are planned in Toronto in November 2010. An Ottawa event is planned as well.
Dr. Lysack wrote “given the severity of today's environmental issues, simply changing your personal lifestyle isn't enough. That would have been enough if we had listened to David Suzuki talk about it in the ‘80s, but our world is too far gone now. Today, we need to focus on public engagement, education and community building”
The link for the Toronto event.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
London's Anglican Garden Project Update
The garden is now completed for the season and was very successful in the produce that was harvested. There were eight city churches involved in the weeding and watering of the garden during a very hot summer.
The churches involved were St. John the Evangelist, Church of St. Jude, St. Aidan's, Bishop Cronyn Memorial, St. Luke's Broughdale, St. John The Divine in Arva, St. Martin-in the-Field and St. Stephen's Memorial. Thank you to all those churches and particularly to St. Aidan's who I think had the hottest and driest week of the summer but did a commendable job.
The vegetables that were grown were lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli Swiss chard, cabbage (both green and red), beans, etc. The dinner program at St. John's benefited from lots and lots of lettuce for tossed salads with some broccoli, red cabbage and tomatoes.
The Friendship Centre at the Cathedral that provides healthy soup and sandwiches to about 200 hungry people daily benefited from the bushels and bushels of other vegetables from the garden.
Our very special "Thank You" to Murray Hunter who planted the garden in the spring and took produce to St. John's and the Friendship Centre all summer and then harvested the remaining vegetables in the fall. He and Rev. Don Ford hosted a delicious appreciation dinner for the helpers on October 15th at St. John the Evangelist Church.
Thank you for all your hard work and hopefully this program helped to fill an empty tummy or two these last few months.
Mary Anne Campbell
The churches involved were St. John the Evangelist, Church of St. Jude, St. Aidan's, Bishop Cronyn Memorial, St. Luke's Broughdale, St. John The Divine in Arva, St. Martin-in the-Field and St. Stephen's Memorial. Thank you to all those churches and particularly to St. Aidan's who I think had the hottest and driest week of the summer but did a commendable job.
The vegetables that were grown were lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli Swiss chard, cabbage (both green and red), beans, etc. The dinner program at St. John's benefited from lots and lots of lettuce for tossed salads with some broccoli, red cabbage and tomatoes.
The Friendship Centre at the Cathedral that provides healthy soup and sandwiches to about 200 hungry people daily benefited from the bushels and bushels of other vegetables from the garden.
Our very special "Thank You" to Murray Hunter who planted the garden in the spring and took produce to St. John's and the Friendship Centre all summer and then harvested the remaining vegetables in the fall. He and Rev. Don Ford hosted a delicious appreciation dinner for the helpers on October 15th at St. John the Evangelist Church.
Thank you for all your hard work and hopefully this program helped to fill an empty tummy or two these last few months.
Mary Anne Campbell
Sunday, October 10, 2010
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