We are excited to announce that the Rev. Dr. Pamela Dolan will be our guest Creation Care Sunday preacher and forum leader on Sunday, May 4. Dolan was ordained in the diocese of Missouri at Christ Church Cathedral and served as rector at Town and Country Episcopal Church until being called as rector at the Episcopal Church of St. Martin in Davis, CA.
The topic of Dolan’s sermon and forum is: “Knowing our Place: Belonging, Hope, and Caring for God’s Creation.”
In an increasingly fragmented society, our best hope for becoming more grounded and resilient is to remember our place: theologically, spiritually, and geographically. Rather than thinking about Creation Care as primarily a way to “save the Earth,” we can instead approach it as a radically faithful way to be in right relationship with God and our neighbor. And it all starts with developing a keener sense of place and the deep belonging that accompanies it.
Dolan is the author of the 2022 book Contemplative Gardening. She is co-chair of the Commission on the Environment for the Diocese of Northern California and has given presentations on becoming a zero-carbon congregation and other creation care topics in churches from Ohio to Tanzania. She wrote regularly on religion topics for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and was ordained at Christ Church Cathedral in 2010. She is delighted to be returning for this year’s Creation Care Sunday.
Please join us for worship at 8 a.m. (in person) or 10:30 a.m. (livestream on the CCC website with the Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson, 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Missouri, presiding) and for our Creation Care forum at 9:10 a.m. in person in the second floor Tech Room of the Bishop Tuttle Memorial Building or via Zoom. The Cathedral will be wonderfully decorated with plants and greenery from the Missouri Botanical Garden, an enduring gift to Christ Church Cathedral from Henry Shaw.
