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Mindful Living:Healthy People, Healthy Churches, Healthy Planet
Join the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working group for this ecumenical gathering to learn about the unfolding world of toxins that can sicken our bodies and our environment.
- Event Types(s)
- Conference
- When
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Oct 09, 2008 12:00 PM
to
Oct 11, 2008 07:00 PM - Where
- Alexandria, MN
- Geographic Areas
- National
- Focus area(s)
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- Children's Health and Environment
- Civic Engagement / Politics
- Communities & Constituencies-focused Work
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Toxics
- Women’s Health and Environment
- Contact Name
- Carl Magruder
- Contact Phone
- 202-481-6683
- Contact Email
- carl@nccecojustice.org
We are taught to treat our bodies as temples to the holy spirit. However we are daily exposed to toxins in our living and working environment. Now scientist are finding more and more links to chemicals in the products and toys we have in our homes and health conditions ranging from learning disabilities to cancer. Come join us in Minnesota to learn where these toxins lurk, what they mean for the health of children, women, communities of color- and well, all of us. Find out what the Christian faith has to say about this issue and what you can do in your home and church to improve human health and the health of all Creation.
Find more details here
Keynote Speakers include Dr. Pete Myers, co-author of Our Stolen Future, and Minister and president of the Masssachusetts United Church of Christ, Reverend Jim Antal.
Panel Speakers include: Dr Mark Mitchell of the Connecticut Coalition of Environmental Justice, Reverend Nancy Firestone, and Minnesota Commissioner for Public Health- Gretchen Musicant.
Learn more at:
www.nccecojustice.org/mnconf.htm
“Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.”
2 Corinthians 7:1 (NIV)
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