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    Sylvia Keesmaat is one of the volunteer co-chairs of the Bishop’s Committee on Creation Care and the founder of the learning community Bible Remixed, www.bibleremixed.ca.

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Hear the voice of creation

At first it was song of the yellowthroat, rising out of the marsh. Then the notes of the swamp sparrow rose on the evening air,

A bumblebee on a purple flower

From ecological grief to creational hope

The Bishop’s Committee on Creation Care has created a Lent curriculum suitable for small groups and individuals that explores the climate crisis and ecological grief.

Volunteers standing in front of church garden

Church gardens create community

On one level, they seem fairly usual: a group of people gathering to garden. But on second thought, the radical nature of the activity is

Volunteers pose with garden rakes

Season of Creation taking root

Imagine that you are sitting on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the land in which you find your home. As you see the streams

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