Working on the annual federal grant application for wage subsidies for summer workers and this is somewhat depressing. It's a bit ironic that they are focusing on both environmental protection and growing the use of AI in the workplace. 🤦‍♀️

What have you read, listened to, or watched this year that inspired you or helped you think about care for the Earth? I would love to hear your recommendations!

Winnipeg people who care about the environment: This guy helped found A Rocha - a global christian environmental organization. It's sure to be an interesting evening!

Anyone in Winnipeg want something for their kids to do on Friday for the PD day? A Rocha is putting on an adventure day for kids ages 6-12. Let me know if you want more info! arocha.ca/event/fall-p...

Look at this menu! I'm so excited for this year's Boggy River Brunch Fundraiser on Nov 8. It's a really fun way to get to know A Rocha a bit more and eat delicious waffles in the process. Way more fun than a formal gala.

The founder of A Rocha, Peter Harris, is coming to Winnipeg and he'll be giving a public lecture called "Why Creation is Waiting for the Christians". He's a gifted storyteller, with a wealth of experience, humour, and hope to share. Would love to see you there on Oct 30th! arocha.ca/PeterHarris

If they do this to the world's most renowned activist, what do they do to people we will never hear of? The EU must cut all ties with the government who orchestrates this depravity.

Fall is the best season.

"what is unfolding in Gaza is not merely genocide: it is also ecocide—or what some have described as a holocide: the deliberate annihilation of an entire social and ecological fabric." mondoweiss.net/2025/09/ecoc...

If you're in Winnipeg, come plant some trees with A Rocha on Saturday morning! We'll be in George Heshksa Park at 10 am. arocha.ca/event/faith-...

UN inquiry finds Israel 's war on Gaza to be a genocide aje.io/2h84g2

God is not dead. God is bread. The bread is rising! Bread means revolution. Organize for a new world. Make the church a people’s church. —The New York Lords, Celebration for a People’s Church

Ok, but has anybody talked about the fact that a pizza is also a pie?

Visiting Riding Mountain National Park for the first time and it is great, even if the weather isn't so great. We went to see the bison today and they were right beside the road. The babies were even frolicking for us.

Looking forward to this!

I'm considering preaching on Joel 2 which comes up in the RCL at the end of October, so I'm saving this thread for later.

Thank God for peaches in the summer. Gonna eat so much peach caprese salad this week.

Definitely raccoons

Sickening

""Come, have breakfast" is a bugle call of divine hospitality toward all people and all living creatures, revealing a passionate divine desire that all should be fed. Pulsing from the story is a call to the community of disciples of Jesus to act on behalf of nourishing others.“ -Elizabeth A Johnson

“We must pray for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home,” Pope Leo XIV said while celebrating a new formulary of the Mass “for the care of creation.”

Paska. Most of it is too dry to be enjoyable. Also plumi moos. Cold bloated dried fruit soup. *Shudder* (although, to be fair, i don't think anyone likes it except my dad)

I know there's a lot going in the world right now, and this is so tiny compared to most of it, but it's also a thing we can do something about. Please sign this petition so that the city won't build a parking lot next door to A Rocha's center in Surrey, BC. www.change.org/p/protect-vu...

Parents in Winnipeg! Do you need something for your kids to do this summer? A Rocha's nature exploration day camps have some spaces left and they're super affordable (we've got a pay what you can model if needed). arocha.ca/mbdaycamps

A place that is very dear to me is being threatened by a proposal to put in an industrial truck lot next door. The proposal has no concern for environment or for the impact on A Rocha's charitable work in the region. I would be grateful if you would share and sign this petition. chng.it/wbVTMjnN7y

This is how. Greta Thunberg spits fire and gives you the only media training you may ever need.

Another great year co-hosting a Bike to Work day pit-stop with the Diocese of Rupert’s Land and A Rocha MB.

When non-citizens reside with you in your land, you shall not wrong them. Rather, the non-citizens who reside with you shall be to you as your citizens; you shall love each one as yourself, for you were non-citizens in the land of Egypt: I God am your God. Leviticus 19:33-34

We need rain so bad here in Manitoba. Please, please, let this forecast be true. 🙏

Ah, sad to hear this! Really recommend the documentary The Salt of the Earth about Salgado's life and work. It's quite stunning.

You can't become fluent through Duolingo. It's helpful for learning vocabulary, but it hasn't helped me with understanding the nuances of grammar and how people actually speak the language, and it can't do that.

This is very good.

Mother is a verb as well as a noun, so I hope everyone can honor whatever mothers them and whatever capacity to mother they have, or the equivalent in whatever gender language works for them.

It's John Stott memorial birding Day! You can join the bird race anywhere in the world! We're hoping to get 50 species today in Manitoba. johnstottbirdingday.com

Good news

Pope Poporopo III (!!!) Incredible Pope name. 5 gold stars to anyone who knows what what this food is! (Hint it's Guatemalan spanish)

Super interesting thread about the new Pope

It's been 15 years since I lived on Lake Atitlan and it takes my breath away just the same. My goodness, I love this place.

Phew, I will sleep well tonight! Unless the barking dogs, birds on the tin roof, and fire crackers keep me up. Which is a very real possibility, but one I'd gladly take over worrying about election results!

Morning/evening in Guatemala!

Ha! I love this. #NorthernCardinalForPope

The real college of cardinals.

This is great (and I’d not read it til today): Pope Francis on reading literature- of all kinds - as formational. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

If you haven't read Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si', you would do well to give it a read. It is a remarkable text, and would be a good thing to reflect on this Easter Monday. www.vatican.va/content/fran...

May he rest in peace. "He taught us to live the values of the Gospel with fidelity, courage, and universal love, especially in favor of the poorest and most marginalized." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

For a heavy soul: go outside and listen to the exuberance of the birds in the morning.

New RLN just dropped: rupertslandnews.ca/rise-up-my-l...

It's officially front porch season!

As we're nearly in Holy week, here's an essay I wrote for our diocese magazine reflecting on the death of the tree in my front yard, and the 9th station of the cross where Jesus speaks to the weeping women (Luke 23:26-31) ⚓ rupertslandnews.ca/weeping-for-...

"This is the miracle that connects me to the bees, the thread that connects all of us wild creatures who are still breathing—it’s not the inevitability of loss and grief, but the astonishing revelation that somehow we’ve managed to survive in the face of it." emergencemagazine.org/essay/tellin...