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R ev . M eighan P ritchard
these days. We see debates over
L ast sum m er,
hydraulic fracturing in North Da
delegates at United
kota and Alberta, Canada. Derailed
Church of Christ’s
and explosive oil trains are catching
G eneral Synod
headlines, while coal processing
passed three reso
chemicals are dumped into West
lutions concerning
Virginia waterways, contaminating
fossil fuels: standing against drinking water for hundreds of thou
mountaintop removal coal mining in sands in nine counties. Russia is
Appalachia, encouraging congrega threatening to decrease its flow of
tions to become carbon neutral, and gas to Ukraine as a flex of political
urging divestment from, or share muscle and factions are fighting over
holder activism with, fossil fuel com control of oil wells in Iraq.
panies.
And that’s just a small sample.
Fossil fuels are all over the news
Fossil fuels are a dead end in two
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senses: they exist in a finite supply, attended community hearings about
and more importantly, they are caus the Sandpiper Pipeline. Attorney
ing climate change, which makes Frank Bibeau has spoken about
our planet less hospitable to many treaty rights. Many have written
species including our own. The ex letters to their legislators and to the
traction processes also take an in M innesota Department of Com
creasing and enormous toll on our merce. UCC members in Minnesota
environment— talk to anyone in have participated in this work as
West Virginia whose mountain has well. We can’t make a difference if
been leveled by coal mining.
we don’t speak up!
Yet our society is built on fossil
Some UCC congregations are
fuels. Everything we do depends on divesting from fossil fuels, and the
them: growing and transporting United Church Funds is developing
food, heating homes, traveling, and fossil fuel-free investment options
so on. As people of faith, we are for them. Other UCC members are
taught to love our neighbors and engaging in shareholder activism,
care for the planet. What are we to along with United Church Funds
do about fossil fuels?
and the UCC Pension Boards.
In my job as United Church of
Some congregations have com
Christ Minister for Environmental munity gardens on their grounds.
Justice, I get to meet people who are Others, including Mayflower UCC
doing something. Michael Dahl of in Minneapolis and University Con
the White Earth Reservation in Min gregational UCC in Seattle, have
nesota speaks passionately against installed solar panels.
the proposed Sandpiper Pipeline,
Can we break ourselves of the
which would carry oil from the fossil fuel habit? The transition will
Bakken Formation in North Dakota not be easy, but it needs to happen
to Lake Superior.
quickly. As people of faith who care
The route would come within a about our planet and our neigh
mile of wild rice lakes in Minnesota. bors— including future generations
The tribes of that region were guar and other species— let us lead the
anteed the right to harvest wild rice way with faith, hope, and love. May
in the Treaty of 1855. A spill into there always be clean lakes for wild
those lakes would be a catastrophe rice and a healthy environment so
not only for the wild rice and all the that all of God’s creatures may thrive.
animals living there but also for the
The Rev. Meighan Pritchard is
people who depend upon this rice minister fo r environmental justice
as a staple of their diet.
fo r the United Church o f Christ’s
Michael and many others have Justice and Witness Ministries.