Join the 2022 Faith Matters Voting Challenge! Voting is one of the most - if not the most - powerful tools we have as people of faith. Voting takes ...
Curated by Victoria Guest, SNEC Environmental Ministry Team
Curated by the SNEC Environmental Ministry Team NEW! 2022 Faith Matters Voting Challenge starts now! Voting is one of the most - if not the most - powerful tools we have as people of faith. Voting takes your caring values into the public square and thereby into ...
Curated by the SNEC Environmental Ministry Team NEW! 2022 Faith Matters Voting Challenge starts now! Voting is one of the most - if not the most - powerful tools we have as people of faith. Voting takes your caring values into the public square and thereby into other ...
Curated by Victoria Guest for the SNEUCC Environmental Ministry Team Spirituality in Nature Group Leaders’ Training Saturday, June 11, 1 – 4 PM Forming a Spirituality in Nature Group (SING) is a great way to connect with community, open up to spiritual deepening, and ...
Curated by Victoria Guest for the SNEUCC Environmental Ministry Team “Living Out the Gospel in Each and Every Election” - Now available online! Check out this new resource featuring Nathaniel Stinnett, founder and Executive Director of the Environmental Voters ...
Congregations throughout the Conference demonstrated their commitment to care for God’s Creation through a variety of Earth Day actions and ...
Preview the service, or download it, from Vimeo here Members of the Southern New England Conference staff have recorded a Good Friday worship service, entitled The Passion of Christ and the Environmental Crisis which is now available for churches to download. ...
If the world’s average temperature will soon shoot past the 1.5ºC target to ensure climate stability, how do we preach about hope? How do we preach about taking moral responsibility for addressing climate change? Focused on these two questions Rev. Margaret ...
In a video on Facebook last week, Executive Minister the Rev. Darrell Goodwin spoke with the Southern New England Conference’s Minister for ...
To pastors and other church leaders: Rev. Dr. Jim Antal, Special Advisor on Climate Justice to UCC General Minister and President (and retired Massachusetts Conference Minister) is inviting churches to sign up for this package offer: ten books; one sermon; and one ...
The Environmental Ministries Team of the Southern New England Conference is now active on social media, with regular new posts on climate justice ...
Twelve congregations have accepted the “Congregation Climate Justice Voter Challenge” and more are on the way! These churches have formally agreed to...
Links: Global Climate Strike Website Find an Event Near You Let Us Know How Your Church is Participating List of Southern New England UCC Events The following Call to Action was sent to churches and clergy on Sept. 9, 2019: Call to Action: Global Climate...
Madison church offers to trade reusable bags for single-use plastic bags that can be re-purposed as sleeping mats.
An overview of the 2019 CT General Assembly Legislative Session.
The 2019 Legislative Session of the Connecticut General Assembly is under way. The Connecticut Conference’s Legislative Advocate, Michele Mudrick, has...
Connecticut Conference Minister the Rev. Kent Siladi and Pam Arifian, the Director of the Northeast Environmental Justice Center at Silver Lake ...
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The Rev. Dr. Damaris D. Whittaker The Connecticut Conference is teaming up with several ecumenical and civic partners to offer a NEW gathering this ...
Retiring Conference Minister and President The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal was presented with the Andy Gustafson Award at this year's Annual Meeting Recognition Luncheon on Saturday, June 16, 2018. Andy Gustafson, who served as Associate Conference Minister for Stewardship & ...
Faith leaders and scientists flank Cardinal Seán O’Malley at the release of the Faith and Science Joint Appeal for Climate Action Photo credit: ...
The state's legislative session has ended and on five of the issues, Connecticut Conference leaders got their wishes. The Conference's Legislative Advocate, Michele Mudrick - who is guided in her work by the resolutions adopted at Annual Meetings - reports the ...
Conference Minister & President Rev. Dr. Jim Antal presents Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley with a preview copy of his forthcoming book, Climate Church, ...
The Massachusetts Conference office now has 83 solar panels installed on the roof of the office building, which will generate clean energy while allowing the Conference to reduce spending on electricity.
Massachusetts Conference Minister President The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal was one of 25 environmental activists detained at the Statehouse on Thursday, after staging a sit-in calling on Gov. Charlie Baker to ban the new construction of all fossil fuel infrastructure in the ...
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Rev. Dr. James Antal was one of a dozen religious leaders of Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical and Jewish traditions who ...
The Massachusetts Conference is partnering with several other organizations to ask Gov. Charlie Baker to issue an Executive Order halting the ...
In the fight against a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth, environmental activists thought they had tried everything. But one thing they ...
What does poison ivy look like? How does a compass work? What kinds of animals live in the woods in Framingham? Twenty-six sixth graders from Kennedy Middle School in Natick explored these questions and more during an off-season visit to Pilgrim Day Camp this ...
This historic moment provides Christian communities with a powerful opportunity to bear witness to the sacredness of God’s creation and the urgent ...
A new and engaged community was formed at the 4th Annual Environmental Justice For All! Retreat, which took place at Silver Lake Conference Center this past weekend.
On President Trump's 100th day in office, 200,000 people from all walks of life ringed the White House to send him a message about climate change.
Tyra DeBoise, a three-time alum of the Conference's Environmental Justice For All! Retreat, and UCC Envirornmental Justice Center Director Pam ...
The national officers of the United Church of Christ and The Council of Conference Ministers last week issued a statement in response to the March 28 ...
On Jan. 22 people of diverse faiths gathered at three different vigils across Connecticut to pray for the US government to accelerate its response to ...
Eight Massachusetts Conference pastors joined fellow clergy in Cannonball, North Dakota last week to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Indians and against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens the Standing Rock Reservation sacred lands and water. An...
The artful display in the sanctuary of Wellesley Congregational (Village) Church told the story in a worshipful way: the wheelbarrow and rake, the ...
The Rev. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas was presented with an award that is given annually to a faith leader whose ministry is moving the needle toward ...
On July 24, the Newtown Congregational Church received the highest level of Green Church designation from the CT Conference Environmental Ministry Team, making Newtown only the third church in the conference to receive this designation.
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Lessons in caring for the environment are learned through Beekeeping-inspired Festival
On Friday, May 20th, eleven youth and three counselors joined me for the 3rd Annual Environmental Justice For All! Retreat at Silver Lake Conference Center. A signature program of the UCC Northeast Environmental Justice Center, this EJ4A! Retreat delivered another ...
Massachusetts Conference Minister and President The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal was one of 16 clergy arrested on Wednesday after entering the construction site of a natural gas pipeline in West Roxbury, halting the work there.
In recognition of Earth Day, 2016, and the United Church of Christ Keep it in the Ground movement, Conference Minister and President Jim Antal ...
On April 17, the Church of Christ Congregational of Goshen celebrated God's creation and their own efforts to create a healthy planet for future generations, efforts that have earned the church the Green Houses of Worship Award.
Ludlow Plarning Platoon Makes Impact on the Environment and Homelessness
Former MACUCC Environmental Justice Intern Patrick Cage, who attended the historic Climate Conference in Paris this past December, will be speaking at churches in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island April 10 - April 17.
Jim Antal, Barbara Libby and Kent Siladi, the Conference Ministers from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, respectively, sent out the ...
Effective today, the Rev. Dr. Margaret Bullitt-Jonas will begin serving both the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts and the Massachusetts ...
In addition to full-time climate justice intern, the Conference has taken on board a second part-time intern who is working for course credit.
The following letter was issued by the leaders of the Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island conferences.