by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 26, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Events, Spiritual Ecology
On Wednesday December 11, 2019, The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, Episcopal Diocese of Virginia came to Buckingham to see and hear for herself what social and environmental injustice looks like on the ground. Her first stop was...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 22, 2019 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
NETWORK Continues Nationwide Series of Rural Roundtables in Virginia VIRGINIA — Sister Simone Campbell, SSS, Executive Director of NETWORK Advocates for Catholic Social Justice and leader of Nuns on the Bus will meet with residents and community leaders from around...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Apr 14, 2019 | Environmental Justice, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
The Virginia State Conference NAACP once again has reaffirmed its longstanding opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In a court brief filed on April 12, the state NAACP has urged a federal appeals court in Washington to revoke the key federal permit for the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Dec 10, 2018 | Compressor Stations, Environmental Justice, Spiritual Ecology
Buy Now Signs in Buckingham County protest Dominion’s proposed compressor station near the Union Hill community. Richmond Times-Dispatch | File 2017 By Mike Ellerbrock Ellerbrock is director of the Center for Economic Education at Virginia Tech, vicariate deacon for...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 18, 2018 | Environmental Justice, Fossil Fuels, Spiritual Ecology
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, Va. — Pastor Paul was nursing a sore throat, but as he preached on a sleepy Sunday morning in his little country church, he felt a rising sense of urgency. “Turning points!” the Rev. Paul Wilson shouted. Like the biblical Paul on the road to...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 17, 2018 | Events, Press Releases, Spiritual Ecology
RICHMOND, Virginia – In light of recent setbacks for the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Virginia Interfaith Power & Light released a report today entitled Our Air, Our Lives: Religious Fact-Finding Delegation to Buckingham County. The report recommends urgent action,...
