Creation Care & Environmental Stewardship

While The Church of the Holy Spirit is a parish of many political perspectives, we share a marked unity on the topic of climate change and creation care. We observed our first series of Creation Care season liturgies in 2024 on three Sundays culminating in the October Feast of St. Francis. Dr. Stephen Young of Salem State University’s Geography & Sustainability Department visited with us on the first of these Sundays to talk about his climate research as well as his faith. CHS was recognized as one of our Diocesan pilot parishes for the Episcopal Path to Creation Justice Program, largely on the basis of our innovative agroecological terracing and runoff mitigation work. Thanks to the ongoing work and investment of our parish, our four acres are themselves becoming a working “filter” protecting our local sole-source aquifer.