our ecoregion
The "Caring for Creation"
site offers resources for all people of faith concerned with issues
of sustainable living. However, emphasis is given to the Southwest
and neighboring regions in the intermountain West.
The American Southwest extends roughly
from the 100th meridian (the line beyond which the so-called arid
lands start) to the eastern slopes of the mountains of California:
west Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and the southern reaches of Nevada,
Utah, and Colorado.
Virtually all of the worlds religions
and many Native American religions are represented within this
region. Roman Catholics, Mormons, Baptists and Methodists, Jews
and Hopis, Navajos and Apaches, Presbyterians and Evangelicals....the
list is long. Religions such as Islam and Buddhism, Hinduism and
Shintoism, are only modestly represented.
Many of the smaller communities
and some of the larger communities have majorities practicing
a particular faith. For example, Albuquerque, New Mexico is majority
Roman Catholic. Show Low, Arizona is predominantly Mormon. Colorado
Springs, Colorado is predominantly evangelical Christian. In such
communities responsible action and leadership from within a particular
faith is very important.
In communities such as Flagstaff,
Arizona, and Amarillo, Texas, where no single faith is in a majority,
ecumenical action is crucially important. The good news is that
every specific religious community has ample grounds to enter
into a caring stewardship of the Creation.
The "Caring for Creation Workshop
Series" aims at developing the resources that create the person
to person, faith to faith networks, that can be effective in particular
communities in their efforts to move toward good and sustainable
living.
Special thanks is extended to the
local organizers of the Caring for Creation Workshop Series, including
John Bailey, Susan Bean, Joe Hart, Joe Harris, Ed Hickcox, Michelle
James, Ramson Lomatwayma, Sandra Lubarksy, Tim Lusk, Nancy Menning,
Max Oelschlaeger, Susan Schroeder, Jonathan Seidel, Mike Tenpenny,
and Karl Webb. These organizers represent an inclusive array of
religions in Northern Arizona.
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