You can make your donation at the link below, and 100% of all gifts will be directed to the Immigration Rapid Response Network's fund. Or if you'd prefer, you can donate directly to IRRN – also linked below.
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www.standwithminnesota.com
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an organization that Karen recommends for their immediate and life-changing work. Your gift will provide a tangible response to urgent basic needs like rental assistance, food, and health care, as well as critical services like legal defense, due process support, and constitutional rights protection
Her neighborhood has since become a node of community defense and healing. Karen herself led Renée's funeral service.
If you've benefited from the work of The BTS Center's Chaplaincy Initiative or other areas of our programming, please consider a donation to Immigration Rapid Response Network,
Chaplaincy Advisory Group. To our Climate Conscious Chaplaincy Initiative, Karen has given her time, wisdom, and courage.
On January 7, Renée Nicole Good was murdered in her vehicle by ICE agents. Karen has shared that this act of violence occurred in close proximity to her home.
The BTS Center invites you to support our friends in Minnesota as they address the emerging immediate needs of those who've been terrorized by ICE and CBP agents.
We extend this invitation with deep appreciation and respect for Rev. Karen Hutt, an indispensable member of The BTS Center's...
Find the circle that's best for your schedule (starting this month). Learn more + register: thebtscenter.org/wildedges-20...
Scott's spiritual accompaniment circle is just one of 5 that still have room for you (including Chelsea's, which is more focused on the needs of climate activists). Each facilitator is committed to creating an inclusive, anti-oppressive space for your group to flourish...
And so do we.
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan... #climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #faithandclimate #spiritualecology #earth #sacredearth #climateaction #sustainability #environmentaljustice #regeneration #climatehope
In the final installment of our Climate Changed storytelling bonus series, Tawni shares a personal account eco-spiritual leadership – from experiences of childhood hunger to becoming a food sovereignty advocate. Tawni sees her medical work not just as a profession, but as vital ministry...
Take it from a nurse:
"We cannot truly have wellness in our bodies if we don't have wellness in our environment."
As an RN and congregational health leader, Tawni White has seen first-hand how the roots of health disparities and the roots of our planet's wellness are entangled...
"And then I burned out." Blair Nelsen of Waterspirit gives us the honest truth about environmental activism, difficult emotions, and ways to digest the impossible together.
Hear the whole episode here: climatechanged.podbean.com/e/convocatio...
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange
The BTS Center was represented at the Maine State Senate today, with our Strategic Communications Director Ophelia Hu Kinney offering the day's opening prayer – with inspiration from animal and plant kin who know how to work together.
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #creationcare #spiritualecology
how the climate crisis presents in our personal lives, even as it reshapes our global context.
Learn more & register: thebtscenter.org/unfixing-film/
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #faithandclimate #spiritualecology #earth #sacredearth #climateaction
...illness, parenting, grief, and love – all in the context of our climate-changed world.
Chaplains, spiritual caregivers – and all who have a body bound in time: you’re invited to a film viewing and conversation with Nicole Betancourt and Susanne Moser. These longtime friends will explore...
Your health – our health – is inextricably connected to the health of our Earth. Come see this intricate interdependence in film.
In her breathtaking award-winning autobiographical film, The Unfixing, filmmaker Nicole Betancourt creates a visual diary of the most tender of themes...
...So, we asked some wise friends what “a climate-changed world” means to them.
Read at our Substack: thebtscenter.substack.com/p/q-what-doe...
We’ve been saying “a climate-changed world” for a while now, here at The BTS Center. And time and again, when people hear that phrase, something in their heart says, “Yes – that.”
Because they know that climate change isn’t a faraway specter. And they know that climate change touches everything...
Next week, we're starting a Lenten book study with Daniel Cooperrider's poetic biblical exploration, "Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You." Come add this practice of re-examination to your Lenten experience.
Learn more and register here: thebtscenter.org/bookstudy-le...
#lent #books
What a gift that the earth knows ashes not as an endpoint but as a part of the cycle. Another gift: that ashes can enrich soil and bring forth what couldn't have existed without them.
#ashwednesday #lent #climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #faithandclimate
This holy month is a summons to purpose, community, and spiritual intimacy. Ramadan Mubarak, beloveds! May this be a month that nourishes our spirits and inclines us toward the good.
#climatejustice #ecospirituality #climatechange #creationcare #ramadan #ramadankareem #ramadanmubarak
For the almost 2B people who celebrate the #LunarNewYear, today marks the beginning of this season of celebration. Each year is assigned to a non-human animal and an earthen element. We bid the year of the Wood Snake goodbye & welcome the year of the Fire Horse!
#lny #newyear #新年快乐 #恭喜发财 #年年有余
Not all of us were voted Most Likely to Save the Rainforest in high school. In today's new episode of Climate Changed, Blair Nelsen and Kate André tell funny, relatable stories of becoming unexpected climate advocates.
Listen here: thebtscenter.org/climate-chan...
Please share this statement with your networks to help build a broad understanding of the threat to all of us. Our fight continues, and we need as many people as possible to know that it is happening."
Read on: www.faithinplace.org/post/faith-i...
One of the most devastating aspects of this decision is that, given its technical nature, many people will not learn about it, or understand just how damaging this is. Speaking up clearly, publicly, and persistently with our faith voices matters more than ever...
Thank you to our friends at @faithinplace for denouncing and clearly explaining an anti-human rule by this U.S. administration's EPA.
"We may have lost this ruling, but we have not lost the fight. The courts will have more to say and together, we will keep up the pressure...."
... and we can't do it without you, our love-letter writers.
Event is FREE but space is limited. Learn more and sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/for-the-lo...
Maine friends: will you be our Valentine tomorrow (Saturday) at the Osher Map Library?
We'll be with our friends from COBALT (Collaborative for Bioregional Action Learning & Transformation) learning about and expressing our love for this unique ecosystem...
... revitalize opportunities for affirming, inclusive connection in the outdoors to improve collective well-being. Learn more and register here: www.queerlyme.org/events/ccfeb
#climatejustice #connection #publichealth #bethevillage
Tomorrow (Friday, February 13) our friends at @QueerlyME are hosting a training on cultivating connection. Come to Twice Sold Tales in Farmington, ME, to learn about the public health crisis of loneliness and isolation, and how we can...
