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An Adult Learning Model for Earth Literacy: Water
(2001)Purpose/Goal: To move to a deeper appreciation of one of Earth’s elements — water. To sense a greater connectedness and communion with water and its relatedness with all of life. To foster a deeper bio-spiritual ... -
Baptism as an Opportunity for Forming Parents into Spiritual Directors
(1988)Those churches which baptize infants recognize the need to nurture faith as the individuals grow. Toward this end, religion classes and CCD programs have been developed. But some years ago, then Archbishop Joseph Bernardin ... -
A Biography of a Place An Examination of the History and Land of Wells County near the Wabash River
(2005)This work presents an overview of the way that the land of Bluffton and Wells County, Indiana, has been utilized by humans, and a glimpse into the future of this land. The area was first colonized by Native Americans ... -
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Sulfide Mining
(2009)Mining copper and nickel present more challenges to the economic and natural environment than mining iron ore or taconite. Because of the increase in price of these so called precious metals, recent focus for sulfide ... -
Brother Francis And the Council of Creatures: A Musical
(2010)The musical, “Brother Francis and the Council of Creatures”, was inspired by the Earth ritual “The Council of All Beings”, originally developed by environmental activists Joanna Macy and John Seed. Using the viewpoints ... -
The Building of An Adult Catechetical Team
(1995)As the National Catechetical Directory continues to address adult religious education, guidelines are given for how this catechesis is to be accomplished. The very first item calls to attention the fact that "Adults should ... -
Building Sustainable Communities: Connecting Religious Congregations with Small Farmers
(2005)The purpose of the Building Sustainable Communities Project (BSC) was to create and develop a collaborative venture between women’s religious congregations and small farms in the Pittsburgh — Beaver Valley in order to ... -
C.O.R.R.E. C.ornerstones O.f R.ight R.elationships in E.nvironments
(2005)To think of “core” as the molten hot center of the planet Earth, is to contemplate the ever-evolving spheres of this unique planet with all of its diverse life. The cosmic particles that have come together to create our ... -
The Call to Ministry: A Process of Theological Reflection For Deacon Candidates and their Wives
(2006)I propose a workshop for those soon-to-be ordained deacons and their wives, as laypersons, to bring to their attention the seriousness of the state of crisis of marriage and family in the United States today, as well as ... -
Children of the Chesapeake: An After School Group Addressing Nature Deficit Disorder
(2009)Children today are suffering from the effects of inadequate time spent exploring the outdoors, contributing to such behavioral and health problems as depression, attention deficit disorder, obesity, diabetes, and others. ... -
Choosing A Sustainable Future: Participative Planning for Rural Counties
(2004)As we enter a new millennium, humanity finds itself faced with challenges of proportions never previously encountered by our ancestors. In the last 50 years human population on planet Earth has grown from 2.5 billion to ... -
Choosing Paths on the Journey: A Planning Process for Christian Ministries
(2006)Choosing Paths for the Journey was written to offer the leaders of Christian Communities a way to include all the members of the community in decision-making. This process empowers teams of people, mostly volunteers, to ... -
Collaborative Ministry: Ministering to Christ’s Faithful
(2009)It is my intention that this project will be a resource material and will help to reawaken the call for collaborative ministry being the most appropriate way to effectively minister in the parish. | intend, in the ... -
Community Awareness for the Plight of the Cedar Creek Watershed
(2007)Water is a limited and valuable commodity. As a global community we can no longer treat water as an endlessly replenishable resource. The need for potable water has never been greater in Darthis history. Our continuance ... -
Community Gardening as an Agent for Change
(2009)Social disorganization takes on many forms and its consequences are distressing. Community gardens have the ability to transform crime, changing negative vacant lots into positive green spaces, which uplift the spirits ... -
Community Gardening: A Path to Food Security in Indianapolis
(2006)Community gardens have been part of the fabric of life in Indianapolis for many years. People participate in community gardens for any number of reasons, including supplementing their food budget or to provide ... -
Community-to-Community Understanding: Introducing A Wetland Ecosystem Community To the Human Community of Nazareth/Bardstown, Kentucky
(2004)The objective of this project in the beginning was to restore a destroyed wetland area. As the project progressed, a deeper objective appeared to be what would make it more lasting. The revised objective was to introduce ... -
Connect and Engage: An Evangelization Tool for Parishes
(2012)We are called to evangelize, to go out and make disciples, not to host an event and hope someone wonders into our midst. As Catholics, we have not done a very good job of promoting the riches of our Catholic faith and ... -
Cultic Myths and/or Ecology in AmerIndian Cultures A Modest Search for Authenticity
(2001)“Cultic Myths and/or Ecology in AmerIndian Cultures” is a personal and modest search for authenticity in AmerIndian cultic myth to locate and separate the ecological and the cultic. The impetus for this work came from ... -
Designing an Ecumenical Service of Morning Praise
(1999)Our pastoral response was to design and implement an attractive and convenient “Midweek Prayers” service that would encourage the participation of both Trinity parishioners and St. Richard’s staff. Without the opportunity ...