Durango Unitarians to explore ‘Soul Matters’
Tom Miller will discuss “Soul Matters: What Matters to You?” at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Durango, 419 San Juan Drive.
Miller is a retired counseling psychologist who helped executives and their teams understand and increase their effectiveness and impact.
A lifelong Unitarian Universalist, he was a member of the Ministerial Task Force that recently found the fellowship’s first minister.
For more information, visit www.durangouu.org.
Farmington church to offer conference for women
The Four Corners Woman2Woman Conference “Brave and Beautiful” will be sponsored by Cross Roads Community Church, 2400 N. Butler Ave. in Farmington, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26.
The conference will include speaker Pam Farrel, the author of Men Are Like Waffles, Women are Like Spaghetti.
For more information, call (505) 325-2600.
Pope sets day to pray for the environment
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has taken a cue from Orthodox Christians and designated Sept. 1 as a day for Catholics to pray for the care of the environment.
The Vatican said this week that Francis, taking up a suggestion from Orthodox leaders, instituted for Catholics a “world day of prayer for the care of Creation” to be marked every Sept. 1.
Writing to Vatican cardinals about his decision, Francis quoted from his encyclical this year about the need for Christians and all people to protect the environment.
Francis told the cardinals the day will offer “individual believers and communities” an opportunity to reaffirm commitments to being “stewards of creation.”
The pope said Catholics’ marking the prayer day on the same date as the Orthodox highlights the “growing communion” between the churches.
Herald Staff & Associated Press
