Season of Creation 
September 7- October 5, 2025

The Season of Creation is the annual Christian celebration to pray and respond together to the cry of Creation: the ecumenical family around the world unites to listen and care for our common home. This year our themes for each Sunday are sky, humanity, earth and mountains. This season is an opportunity to fall in love with the created world and see ourselves as creatures within the world that God so loves, rather than set apart from it.

Theologian Kate Bowler writes, “we seem hardwired to notice beauty. Which is another way of saying that God designed us to pay attention. There is something about the world’s glory, its light and shadow, its songbirds and seasons—that stirs up the deep place in us where awe lives. Ralph Waldo Emerson saw nature as a kind of spiritual tuning fork. The stars or horizon weren’t simply pretty; they helped us realign with the sacred. He called it learning “the lesson of worship.” We don’t live next to nature. We are nature. The sweaty, glorious, glandular creatures that we are. That’s the gospel of creatureliness: not dominion, but participation. Not above, but among.”