The Episcopal Ecological Network (EpEN)

It has been noted by the sages that knowledge becomes wisdom sometime around the age of 79. Well, we are now celebrating our collective 120^th year, and with that milestone in mind, we offer a few reflections, dreams and hopes. We are two friends from distinct regions of the nation – one layman, one clergyman, living 3,000 miles apart, brought together by a common faith, and a great Episcopal communion. We have arrived at a similar place at a similar time in our lives.

The Episcopal Ecological Network (EpEN), established to enhance our church’s mission to serve all in creation, facilitated our meeting, nurtured our commitment to a strong ecological framework for our lives, and fostered pride in our being associated with many men and women who share a similar passion for preserving the integrity of creation.

As members of the EpEN,we invite you to share in a journey and new venture with us. As we reflect on our 120 years on the planet and our 16 years as members of the Episcopal Ecological Network, we gratefully acknowledge the voices of the prophets of old who held their generations accountable for their actions. We feel that our times today require voices willing to speak for the voiceless in creation in an on-going and strident manner. We feel that the written word communicated electronically is a viable medium to share the ‘greater gospel’ (a new phrase to include the book of nature). We want you to participate with us in a monthly ‘get out the vote’ for God’s creation and all that lies therein.

We will write a column that will invite you to respond with your own comment or column. The dialogue of 2 will grow to 3, 4, 5 and then 5,000. When this is feeding 5,000 we will have built a voice into a heavenly chorus that just might be loud enough to be heard in the Diaspora of every diocese. Everyone on the column will have a chance to speak electronically to everyone else. We will build this dialogue on this web site.  We want to build a chorus one voice at a time, and your voice is important to the building up of God’s realm and the preservation of God’s garden.

All messages will be recorded and saved and the body of commentary will become a contemporary book of the Bible fit for the Apocrypha.  Let us hear your voices.