Seventh Annual GIPPY's

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The Seventh Annual GIPPYs were held at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Atlanta on February 7, 2013. Thanks to everyone who celebrated this evening with GIPL!

Sarina Bajwa of Green Muslims delivered a powerful message about our shared responsibility to tend the Earth. Five congregations received awards for their outstanding efforts in sustainability. Their stories will be shared over the next few days, click on the links below to read more about each of the awards. Congratulations to all of them! See pictures of the ceremony here.

Sarina K. Bajwa is the Community Outreach manager of Green Muslims, an organization that seeks to reemphasize the unique role and responsibility entrusted upon humanity by God: environmental stewardship. Originally from New Jersey, Sarina is inspired by the principle of stewardship and its powerful meanings in both environmental and spiritual realms. She hopes to aid in Green Muslims’ mission to empower individuals and communities to be conscious of their relationship to the earth and to embrace their roles as environmental stewards. Sarina is involved in several education initiatives working with youth, and is a former fellow of the Buxton Initiative, an organization that fosters dialogue between faith communities. She completed her BA in Peace and Justice Studies, with a concentration in Community Development and Education, from Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA.

Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson is the author of Between God & Green: How Evangelicals Are Cultivating a Middle Ground on Climate Change, which explores the phenomenon of evangelical climate care. She shows that by engaging with climate change as a matter of private faith and public life, leaders of the movement challenge traditional boundaries of the evangelical agenda, partisan politics, and established alliances and hostilities. These leaders view sea-level rise as a moral calamity, lobby for legislation written on both sides of the aisle, and partner with atheist scientists. Wilkinson reveals how evangelical environmentalists are reshaping not only the landscape of American climate action, but the contours of their own religious community. Though the movement faces complex challenges, climate care leaders continue to leverage evangelicalism's size, dominance, cultural position, ethical resources, and mechanisms of communication to further their cause to bridge God and green.

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