Originally published on EdenKeeper The historic neighborhoodĀ of West Oakland, California is one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s last bastions of true grit. Local residentsĀ have battled unemployment, poverty, and crime. It was hereĀ almost 50 years ago that Huey Newton and Bobby Seale drafted the Black Panther Ten Point Program to declare the rights of the […]
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Originally published on EdenKeeper In just two months, Pope Francis’s encyclical, “Praised Be: On Care for Our Common Home,” has inspired a lot of good for the environment. Large religious groups divested their holdings from fossil fuel companies. Rabbis came together to promote wind power. Organizations as large as the Girl Scouts, and as small
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Originally posted on EdenKeeper In the small, west-African country of Senegal, a Muslim leaderĀ has calledĀ for aĀ jihad, but not one of violence inspired by anger or fear. It is a jihad inspired by a love for his community, the natural beauty of his country, and people all over the world, as well as an increasing anxiety
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Originally published on EdenKeeper What do a government scientist, reverend, fisherman, and farmer all have in common? As Pope Francis wrote in his environmental encyclical, “Praised Be,” they all share a common home. And, as floods, droughts, heat waves, and storms hurt their home with increasing frequency and severity, they allĀ share a common desire to
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Originally published on EdenKeeper.org On the day of the Epiphany in 1965, twenty-oneĀ Girl Guide associations established theĀ International Catholic Conference of Guiding (ICCG). It was a time of radical change around the world ā from the Vietnam War, to civil rights movements, to a growing environmental awareness ā there was a sense that things were shifting.
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