FAN is proud to be a part of an upcoming forum in Arizona on Food Justice, Faith and Climate Change. Coordinated and hosted by Gary Paul (Br. Coyote) Nabhan, who was recently named 2016 Distinguished Ethnobiologist, this forum offers participants workshops on a variety of topics related to…
FRANCISCAN ACTION NETWORK STANDS WITH MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS As Franciscan and Muslim leaders we join together in calling for an end to vitriolic hate speech, attitudes and actions against Muslims. We condemn acts of hatred and violence committed by any group against another. Zechariah 7:10 declares that the word…
by Brother Gary “Coyote” Nabhan The recent toxic spill of 3 million pounds of mine wastes in the Animas-San Juan watershed is roughly I received my “call” year ago to become a Franciscan after days of solitude and prayer in the wilderness of the Four Corners region. It is also…
By: Gary Paul Nabhan and Ina Warren, MakeWayforMonarchs.org Two monarchs on a pink milkweed blossom. By Ina Warren When Pope Francis recently released his encyclical on climate change, people of many faiths finally realized how climate change is ultimately an issue of social and environmental justice that bringing caring for…
Greetings– After talking with our OEF Chaplain, CJ Boykin, about his passion for injustices in the United States legal system, I decided to foist upon you the newsletter below. This is a special issue of Hunger News & Hope (from Seeds of Hope) that focused on US prisons and their…
Greetings, OEF siblings– I am posting here a liturgy that has been adapted for the OEF. It came from the 2014 Seeds Hunger Emphasis packet, which emphasized care for all creation. Hope you enjoy it. (The art is by Sally Lynn Askins.) Peace to you, Katie …
They were in an upper room, huddled in fear behind locked doors, when suddenly Jesus was in the room with them. He said to them, “Peace be with you.” Twice he said that, and the second time he breathed on them, and said, “As I have been sent, so I…
Dear siblings, I am posting here the “butterfly” liturgy that Brother Coyote and I prepared for our 2014 Chapter. Coyote wrote it originally for Earth Day last year, and he asked me to edit it and make it more ecumenical, and then lay it out. For Chapter we tweaked it…
Dear siblings, Here is a layout of the Franciscan Leaf of Hours, written by Brother Coyote, one of your JPIC animators, and laid out by Katie, your other JPIC animator. This will be familiar to some of you. Coyote led us with the matins and compline part of this at…