by Katie Ruth | Jun 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Katie Ruth | Sep 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by Katie Ruth | Nov 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
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....
by Katie Ruth | Mar 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
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...
by Arielle Sternman | Jan 28, 2014
Members of Philadelphia PA IPL plan to attend this event. Living in period of history where nuclear weapons and climate crisis are part of our mental landscape can be challenging, to say the least. While political activism is essential, the arts, and specifically...