The Great Lakes Spirituality Project shares stories, reflections & conversations, and provides a spiritual voice for the work to protect the Great Lakes Basin.
"Honoring Grandmother #Earth and Protecting the Waters of the #GreatLakes" - a free, online concert for the Great Lakes with @WadeFernandez - Tues., Aug. 27; 7:30 ET/6:30 CT. Go to our website to find out more and register: https://t.co/TZZOBxViFC #Music#INDIGENOUS
"Honoring Grandmother #Earth and Protecting the Waters of the #GreatLakes" - a free, online concert for the Great Lakes with @WadeFernandez - Tues., Aug. 27; 7:30 ET/6:30 CT. Go to our website to find out more and register: https://t.co/TZZOBxViFC #Music#INDIGENOUS
"(In Christianity) our initiation rite is baptism... a sacrament we do with water... Here in Michigan, we are additionally blessed to be surrounded by life giving water. And so the two are inextricably linked." - Joseph Kennedy, St. David's Episcopal Church, Lansing #GreatLakes
"We’re housing 20% of the world's surface freshwater. So we have to take care of it. We have to do our duty to serve people in a better way." - Erica Bouldin, Line 5 Engagement Coord. for @MiClimateAction#glspirit#GreatLakes#spirituality#ClimateAction https://t.co/tdrRwqsXRt
"I love this earth... This is God's gift, and every single breath is a gift from God that is to be treasured. And if we are careless with the gifts, they're not going to be present for us as we continue" - Rev. Linnea Stifler #glspirit#GreatLakes#ClimateAction#spirituality
"I am a young African American male that has to make sure that my community, not only as a young person but as a person of color, is being represented in everything." - Michael King, Grand Valley St. Univ. Student & MI League of Conservation Voters Organizer #GreatLakes#climate
"I'm a Muslim, and in my faith, there's something called an Amanah or like a trust ... I think the earth is one of the Amanahs that we're trusted with, one of the things that we're responsible for." - Zahra Seblini, Office of Sustainability, City of Detroit #greatlakes#climate
Rallying for a Michigan Clean Energy Future! ✨
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Join #GreatLakes Inspired on Zoom tomorrow night for a wonderful evening bringing science and the arts together to care for the Lakes. Or if you live near the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge, you can join in person! Register at https://t.co/0ySKGDA6Ak
The Mariners' Church of Detroit will ring its bell 30 times at 3 p.m. today in honor of Gordon Lightfoot.
It rang its bell 29 times for those killed on the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, and that was reflected in Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."