Sacred Earth Project
The Episcopal Diocese of California has started the Vital+Thriving Congregations program (www.vitalthriving.org) for church innovation with a focus on the vitality practices of collaboration, invitation, embeddedness, diversity, and sustainability. We see “sustainability” in its broadest sense as a container for all the other practices, believing that the church is being called at this very moment in time to understand climate justice and racial justice as mutually interconnected and both as central to our work of growing God’s beloved community.
In conjunction with the Vital + Thriving program, we are calling this new sustainability-focused work “Sacred Earth: Growing Beloved Community” as the strands of climate justice, racial justice, evangelism, and church vitality are woven together. We are starting with a monthly streaming video series on climate change and spirituality featuring climate justice leaders and their stories.