Peter McLoughlin

Season of Creation Daily: Back where it all started. Way back in the year 1225, St. Francis wrote of brother sun, sister moon, the stars, the wind … all creatures, in his Canticle of the Creatures. Pope Francis began his 2015 letter by quoting from it. "Praise be to you, my Lord, through all your creatures." Reading time: 40 seconds.

Season of Creation Daily: A new and serious response. Today's message gives us Mary Oliver's "big question." Reading time: 25 seconds.

Season of Creation Daily: Take the pledge. The beauty of the Laduato Si' Pledge is that it gives us a simple, three-phrase reminder of what to do. Reading time: one minute.

Season of Creation Daily: Be amazed. Today's message revisits our childhood sense of eye-opening wonder. Let's remember and revisit. Reading time: one minute.

Season of Creation Daily: Awe and wonder. Matthew Fox (Original Blessing) helps expand our understanding of "salvation" beyond sin/redemption to marveling and rejoicing in creation, and then protecting it.

Season of Creation Daily: The peace of wild things. In the face of despair and fear, where does Wendell Berry find rest and freedom? His short answer.

Season of Creation Daily: "Behold I make all things new." But, even "This is My Body" and "This is My Blood"? Yes. This message redirects our reverence to what we see as ordinary.

Season of Creation Daily: Our brain, our galaxy. And where's (Ralph) Waldo? And an invitation. 

Season of Creation Daily: Take a moment to reflect on the photo. Christianity has been an indoor religion. This message leads us outdoors with all of our senses alert. 

Season of Creation Daily: Active hope. Once in a while a prophet shows up, like Joanna Macy, talking about people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. Read on.

Season of Creation Daily: We can read the Universe story in the trees. Plus, today's message includes a word challenge.

Season of Creation Daily: "The truly holy person welcomes all that is earthly." Hard to believe that’s a quote from the 12th century.

Season of Creation Daily: A thought about surface and depth. And "Holy Spirit, you are the cause of all movement, the breath of all creatures?" Who said that?

Season of Creation Daily: Earth teach me. Take a look at the world through the lens of "single use" — things we use only once and then toss. Toss into the …?

Season of Creation Daily: I live my life in widening circles. The larger world awaits us.

Season of Creation Daily: How do we face the world's crises yet maintain and model hope? There's a song that wants to sing itself in us. Click above to continue.

Season of Creation Daily: Nature's peace will flow into you. Today's message is from two American treasures: Ansel Adams and John Muir, and then an invitation.

Season of Creation Daily: I thank you God for this most amazing day. Re-use and recycle, even a poem.

Season of Creation Daily: Your place in the family of things. Can we listen and hear a call? A call from wild geese, from our bodies, from the world? The cry of the earth, the cry of the poor. Listen on.