Two months since my last Groundling blog entry. That's what a new congregation, moving, and vacationing will do to the patterns of life. I have kept up with my Lion Lamb blog but this one has suffered from neglect despite the importance of the eco-faith discussion.
I return with the story of some old but mighty nuns in the States, the Sisters of Loretto in Kentucky. They have decided that there won't be an oil pipeline built across their 800-acre campus. Read this from Mother Jones magazine:
Down the road from the Maker's Mark bourbon distillery in the central Kentucky town of Loretto, a feisty cadre of nuns has been tending crops and praying since the early 1800s. An order founded on social justice, the Sisters of Loretto are quickly becoming the face of a new grassroots campaign against what they see as a threat to holy land: the Bluegrass Pipeline. The 1,100-mile pipeline will carry natural gas liquids from the Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia fracking fields, and will pass through Kentucky—eventually connecting with an existing pipeline that runs all the way to the Gulf Coast.
The sisters go to public meetings and declare that God is the creator and that they will care for creation. And they sing about it! http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/nuns-bluegrass-pipeline-loretto
What do you think about the singing nuns? Have you ever "taken up the torch" for an environmental cause? Was your faith in the Creator part of your motivation?
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