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Join Creation Justice Ministries and Arizona Interfaith Power and Light to pray for Peace with Creation at the Desert Botanical Garden

August 30, 2025 in Faith In Action

We are in a moment of urgent ecological crisis. Federal rollbacks on climate protections, attacks on public lands, and cuts to environmental justice programs demand a moral response. As people of faith, we are called to resist the desecration of the Earth and work toward its healing.

The beginning of September marks the Season of Creation, a time in the Christian liturgical calendar to celebrate, to honor and to care for Creation. The Season of Creation spans five weeks between the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation (September 1) and the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi (October 4). This year, the theme of Season of Creation is pulled from the text of Isaiah 32:14-18, where the prophet Isaiah pictured the desolated Creation without peace because of the lack of justice and the broken relationship between God and humankind. 

This year, during the Season of Creation, CJM is partnering with 19 faith organizations  to promote “peace with Creation” through public witnesses across the country to call on the U.S. government to have moral courage and promote a right relationship and peace with Creation. Learn more here. 

Register to Witness For Creation

Join us on September 9th at 8:00 am at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix to continue praying during the Season of Creation together. The event will include prayer, public testimony, and calls for urgent moral action in the face of worsening climate impacts in Arizona, including dangerous, excessive heat and attacks on sacred lands. We will be joined by three Arizona co-sponsors, Arizona Interfaith Power & Light, Arizona Faith Network and Corazón Arizona. The public witness event will lift up the voices of influential Arizona faith leaders reminding us of the critical role faith communities play in advancing peace with creation. 


Speakers include: 

  • Melanie Beikman, Arizona Interfaith Power & Light

  • Rev. John Caleb Collins, Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration

  • Rev. Dr. Toni Hawkins, Southwest Conference, United Church of Christ

  • Tania Lopez,  Corazón Arizona 

  • Rev. Jeff Procter-Murphy, Dayspring United Methodist 

  • Steve Raml, St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church

  • Rev. Katie Sexton, Arizona Faith Network

  • Rev. Trish Winters, Community Christian Church 

We invite you to share this event with others in your faith community. Download a bulletin insert below to share at your church before September 9:

Download a bulletin insert to share with your community

Many thanks to our national co-sponsoring organizations, Creation Justice Ministries, the United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), Presbyterian Church (USA), Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, General Board of Church and Society, Passionist Solidarity Network, Reformed Church of America, National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE), African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, and the Mennonite Central Committee. 

In gratitude,

Avery Davis Lamb

Executive Director, Creation Justice Ministries

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