Earth Sunday, 2023: All Creation, Yearning to Breathe Free

This Sunday, as we celebrate Earth Day, we welcome a special guest preacher, The Rev. Noah Brewer-Wallin (he/they), the Assistant Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for our Southern New England Conference of our United Church of Christ denominational family. Rev. Brewer-Wallin's portfolio at the Conference includes both environmental and economic justice, and he'll be helping us celebrate God's good gift of creation and address ourselves to caring for our our human and non-human neighbors in this climate crisis. (Psalm 144:3-4, 12-15) Many thanks to the members of our Environmental Ministries Team for all they've done to organize this Earth Day observance!This sermon is part of our Year W project, spending a year listening for the voices of women, girls, and the divine feminine in the Bible with the guidance (and translations) of Prof. Wil Gafney and her "A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church: Year W" (https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-women-...)Join us Sundays for worship, LIVE! on-site and online via Zoom @ 10am ET. Connection info at www.NeedhamUCC.org.---The Congregational Church of Needham strives to be a justice-seeking, peace-making, love-affirming, LGBTQ-welcoming, radically-inclusive congregation of the United Church of Christ in Needham, MA.Church is the practice.Love is the point.