The Lutheran Community Foundation

The first Earth Day was on April 22, 1970, when 20 million Americans demonstrated for a healthy, sustainable environment.  This day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.  Thirty-nine years later, the fight to care for creation continues. 

We invite you to be a part of Earth Day by reading reflections on the environment from Lutheran leaders and Lutheran Community Foundation donors.  These reflections helped create the framework for the Creation Care Environmental Initiative.  What would your reflection say? 

 

REFLECTIONS FROM FOUNDATION DONORS

I am Blessed That I Live in a Lovely Woods

By Joan Yaroch, Foundation Donor

The Larger Actions Need to Be Done

By Thomas and Barbara Lindemeyer, Foundation Donors

Objectives with our Gifts to Environmental Causes

By Shirley and Grant Beckfield, Foundation Donors

We are Merely the Caretakers of His Gift

By Lynda Able, Foundation Donor

We Hope to Encourage Others

By Elizabeth Burfeind, Foundation Donor

Tread Lightly on the Earth

By Evelyn and Earl Dolven, Foundation Donors

This Summer Fires Came to California

By Monica Bellizzi, Foundation Donor

REFLECTIONS FROM THE LUTHERAN COMMUNITY

Lutherans and Ecological Justice

By David Rhoads
Director, Web of Creation and Professor of New Testament, LSTC

Healing and Growth Begin When We Repent

By Matthew Anderson-Stembridge
Lutheran Coalition for Public Policy in Minnesota Council

Acting as Humble Servants

By Sue Leaf, Lutheran Biologist

A Thoughtful Theology of Creation

By Pastor Jeff Wild
Advent Lutheran Church, Madison, WI

The Environment is our God-given Neighbor

By Brian L. Friedrich
President, Concordia University, Seward, Nebraska

Our Interdependence in Genesis

By Terence Fretheim, Professor of Old Testament, Luther Seminary 

A Consuming Vocation

By Jim Farrell
Professor of Environmental Studies, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

Reflections on the Environmental Crisis and Its Opportunities

By Rev. Robyn M. Hartwig, Portland, OR

The Church's Role in Environmental Stewardship

By Peter Bakken
Co-author of Church on Earth: Grounding your Ministry in a Sense of Place

Healing our Relationship with Creation

By James B. Martin-Schramm
Professor of Religion & Research Chair, Center for Ethics and Public Life, Luther College, Decorah, IA