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Dear Friend,

The Climate Stewardship Act (CSA), a critical bill for climate justice policy in the US, has been introduced in Congress. Sojourners is joining with 80 other organizations to endorse the bill. We have two ways for you to join with us in supporting the CSA:

1. Take action and send an email to Congress asking your elected officials to become supporters and co-sponsors of the bill.
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2. Read my reflection on the personal, spiritual, and ecological importance of trees and the key role reforestation plays in the Climate Stewardship Act:

In An Economy of Extraction, Plant Trees 
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by Melody Zhang

"...And the leaves of the tree of life will be for the healing of the nations." -Revelation 22:2

This week, I willed myself to slow down and revel at how much trees have to offer us - by way of teaching and giving, and by way of just existing.

Perhaps many of us grew up knowing and loving one certain tree. For me, it was the soft red maple right on my neighborhood block. Its trunk was the back I leaned on for comfort. I memorized the particular tangle of its branches after countless scrambles upwards to earn entire afternoons tucked deep in its shade. As I grew, it grew with me.

In my college years, while taking courses in environmental science and attending campus fellowship, I started to meditate on the lessons that trees embodied for us as people of faith: what it meant to be firmly rooted in grace, where I could find solid ground in a time of tumult, and how God would cultivate the courage in me to branch out vocationally. Even now, in my pursuit of contemplative activism....CONTINUE READING
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