Stewardship of the Environment Commission
Rev. Dr. Kristina Petersen, LIC Stewardship of the Environment Commission Chairperson.
Dr. Petersen is a retired Presbyterian (PCUSA) pastor. She most recently served Bayou Blue Presbyterian Church in Gray, LA and is currently the Director-Facilitator of the Lowlander Center: Supporting Lowland People and Places through Education, Advocacy and Applied Research. She envisions a safe, healthy, just future by rejuvenating and restoring the human and non-human community through a rights-based approach and plenty of love. She is an applied social scientist who studies scientist/community interaction including how to support and prepare both scientists and community members for working together and how that work transforms both parties. She has been a champion of justice related issues be they human or environmental and an advocate for peace. She has a passion for finding new ways and creative ways of problem solving by hearing stories of place and people. She believes that understandings from our past and our ancestors (human and nonhuman) can help us live into the future with gentleness of spirit and the rejuvenation of our world. She is an aspiring permaculturalist and is working towards the integration of nature into all she does.
The Sacredness of Water Webinar Series
The 90-minute webinars bring together a diverse group of leaders of faith-based organizations and environmental groups to examine our physical, spiritual, cultural and socioeconomic dependence on this life-sustaining resource. Participants explore emerging threats to water, useful sources of information, and ethical actions that we may take to protect this most profound gift.
Coming Soon - Link to recording of the 1st Webinar
Sacredness of Water Webinar #2: Why are we in this crisis with water, flooding, sea level rise? What are the current threats to Louisiana as we understand them? How can and should people of faith respond?
Coming Soon - Link to recording of the 3rd Webinar
Sacredness of Water Webinar #4: “Water and Environmental Justice” - facilitated by Dr. Margaret Reams, the Joseph D. Martinez Professor of Environmental Sciences, Louisiana State University.
Resolutions and Statements of LIC regarding the Stewardship of the Environment
Protecting the wetlands and river deltas
Almighty God, in giving us dominion over things on earth, you made us co-workers in your creation. Give us wisdom and reverence to use the resources of nature, so that no one may suffer from our abuse of them, and that generations yet to come may continue to praise you for your bounty; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
— The Book of Common Worship