Sermon: Our Transforming Climate

This sermon was given by Rev. Alison Cornish on Earth Day 2018, at the Unitarian Society of Germantown in Philadelphia. Readings  — two poems       The Peace of Wild Things  by Wendell Berry   audio link When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night...

new hymn: O God, We’ve Prayed in Wind and Rain

The Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has recently returned to Pennsylvania as co-pastor of Overbrook Presbyterian Church.  She is a prolific hymn-writer, and has shared her newest hymn with the IPL community.  Carolyn wrote this piece in response to the storms of late...

the power of song

At PA IPL’s 2014 Annual Conference, Climate Justice: Faith in Action  the Rev. Rhetta Morgan of the Ecclesia Spiritual Center drew participants in to the sanctuary for the keynote session by beginning her music in the sanctuary at Summit Presbyterian Church....

We are capable of attention.

This poem crossed my desk as a forward of a forward.  It offers hope in beauty, in nature, in growth, which persist through the ugliness on which we sometimes dwell.  It seemed right for the first day of Spring when it’s so easy to be overwhelmed by the miracle...