Worship Sundays at 4 p.m. PST in the barn, garden, or indoors, depending on the weather.

We Work for an Ecologic Civilization with Our 12-Step Program

1. Share the truth that the current sixth mass extinction of life on Earth—the only one caused by humans—is an invitation for transformation as a human species.

2. Acknowledge history and habits of dominance-over relationships, and commit instead to relationships of collaboration, partnership, and co-creativity.

3. Make amends for our alienation from and abuse of the natural world, as well as for our idolatry of scientism and rationalism, by fostering transdisciplinary reconnections among religion, art, psychology, ecology, and more.

4. Explore eco-feminist and process theology, celebrating God and Goddess language, symbols, and relationships.

5. Study the teachings of Jesus and Mary Magdalene and their Church of Love, highlighting the radical call to love our enemies, serve God rather than money, and care for “the least of these,” drawing from newly found gnostic scriptures and the world’s ancient wisdom traditions.

6. Offer diverse spiritual practices that cultivate loving relationships with the natural world, Mother Earth, and all creation.

7. Honor the invisible realms of dreams, prayer, intuition, parapsychology, and imagination.

8. Celebrate the arts—visual, performing, ritual-making, beauty, and creativity—as divine spiritual practice.

9. Build intergenerational community by intentionally including and honoring both the very young and the elderly.

10. Encourage holistic consciousness raising by integrating body, sexuality, mind, spirit, feelings, intuition, and imagination.

11. Work for social justice locally and globally in partnership with other organizations.

12. Experiment with nontraditional church practices in order to create relevant, spirit-filled, and loving community.   

Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties forming

“Don’t think a small group of people cannot change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.” —Margaret Mead

Join us every Sunday, 5–7 p.m. PT, in Dallas, Oregon (in person).
Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties have begun in Oregon and New York, and we hope they will spread around the world. Our common aim is to create small communities of radical love—to share the truth about the worst existential threat currently facing the human family and our common home, Mother Earth, in her 4.5 billion years of life.

Small groups commit to sharing their feelings, telling the truth, eating together, and co-creating creative responses to this historic time. Together, we face what is too painful to hold alone as we:

1. Agree that there is an earth crisis.

2. Are willing to share our feelings with other people.

3. Are willing to talk about what is going on in the world currently, including the escalating threat of nuclear war and ecological catastrophe.

4. Are willing to eat with others at least once a week in people’s homes and explore visions, hopes, and dreams for new ways of living that we are creating out of this crisis, as we commit to the spiritual practice of radical love for one another.

A team of experienced group leaders is available to support new groups.
Co-sponsored by the Living Earth Movement and Our Common Home Counseling Center.

Contact: Rev. Bonnie Tarwater — (858) 248-5123, revtarwater@yahoo.com

“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.”

—Rev. Martin Niemöller, 1946

 Declaration of the Church for Our Common Home

March 2025

We stand in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil and all those threatened with illegal deportation. God calls us to mercy, and we stand with the vulnerable, as Jesus taught—including refugees, the sick, the poor, those suffering from the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza, and “the least of these,” including non-human creatures who are suffering from ecocide (Matthew 25:40). As a faith community, we are stewards of God’s creation. We are dedicated to serving God, not money; to loving and praying for our enemies and those who persecute us. We imagine an ecological civilization that includes all creatures at God’s table. We commit to working to save our democracy alongside the working poor and all who are persecuted. Our work is for the common good of all creatures in our interconnected web of life.

We are people of conscience, guided by a vision of Peace on Earth and the principles of love, mercy, forgiveness, and justice. We have made a sacred promise to love God and our neighbors—including the natural world—each as an extension of ourselves. We care for our common home, our habitat, for this is the vision and the work that will unite the human family to eradicate nuclear weapons and the addiction to war. We long to share resources more justly so that everyone can survive and thrive. We declare our unwavering commitment to the protection of American democracy, now under threat. We work for world peace and the defeat of authoritarianism in all its forms.

At this moment in history, we recognize the grave dangers posed by dictatorship: the erosion of human rights, the suppression of truth, the concentration of power in the hands of the few, and the weaponization of fear to control the many. These threats endanger the dignity of individuals, ecosystems, the health of communities, and the future of our common home—the Earth.

As citizens of the world, and as members and friends of the Church for Our Common Home, we look to the teachings of Jesus to love our enemies. This was lived out by Mahatma Gandhi in the nonviolent revolution that overturned the British Empire. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. brought this teaching to the U.S., changing the way the world views racism.

We affirm that humans have an urgent call from God to follow in their footsteps:

1. Truth must prevail over propaganda – We will speak truth to power, for the truth will set us free. In the face of lies, we reject falsehoods designed to manipulate and divide, and we defend the right of all people to access unbiased information.

2. Justice must triumph over oppression – We will stand in solidarity with those who suffer under injustice, resisting policies and actions that harm the vulnerable, silence dissent, or exploit the natural world.

3. Democracy must be defended – We will actively participate in democratic processes, reject all attempts to subvert free elections, and work to ensure that governance reflects the will of the people, not the interests of a ruling elite.

4. Nonviolent resistance is our moral duty – We will oppose dictatorship through peaceful means, using our voices, the written word, our votes, and our collective creative genius to challenge tyranny and uphold the principles of liberty and equality.

5. Community is stronger than division – We will build networks of support and solidarity, including Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties, recognizing that an injury to one is an injury to all. Together, we will create a just and sustainable future. Creating beloved community is our pledge.

We declare that no ruler, no government, and no system of oppression can stand against the will of a people determined to be free. We commit ourselves to action—by creating beloved community, building loving relationships, envisioning a world of peace, advocating, praying, practicing nonviolent civil disobedience, and pursuing justice without ceasing—until democracy is restored, human rights are upheld, and the Earth, our habitat, is safe from threat. We pledge to protect and heal our common home for future generations.

We, the undersigned, call for mercy and declare this in courage and unity.

Rev. Bonnie Tarwater, Minister
Church for Our Common Home | www.churchforourcommonhome.com | revtarwater@yahoo.com | (858) 248-5123

Dr. Walter Rutherford, Director, Our Common Home Counseling Center

Dr. Elizabeth Johnson CJS, Rev. Dr. Anand Veeraraj, Rev. Dr. Scott T. Crane, Anna Liza Smith, Rev. Carol Hilton, Rev. Bryan Jessup, Edie Jessup, Joan Noyce, Rev. Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, Kathryn Rainbow White, Truman Price, Victoria Young, Erin Shepard, Don DeFord, Rachel Daniel, Andrea Cristina, Kathy Ruyts, Sandra Walden, Martha Garcia, Lindon Hy, Catherine Sterns, Ruth Roberts, Courney Childs, David A. McMurray, Allison Clement, Josh Stewart, Sean Smith, Jolene Brock, John Brown, Kaia Martin, Traci McMerritt, Anand Veeraraj, Alessandra Colfi, Sally Rings, Ted Lau, Cindy Lubar Bishop, Wali David Via, Marirose K. Lescher, Benikia Kressler, Ralph G. Penunuri, Eliyahu Goodman, Michele Newman, Judy Coyle, Beth Brown, Rev. Katherine Jesch, Kathie Murtey, Sonya Howard, Troy Prouty, Rev. Steve Mitchell, Kate Landishaw, Karen Jean Canan, Helen Murphy, Robert Murphy, Victoria George, Adrain Cerny, Linda Richards, Sebastain Cazaera, Gretchen Newlin, Leia Pisor, Bryan Hyuas.

Special thanks to the Ecumenical Ministry of Oregon and the Earth Summit for the theme of Emergency Preparedness: Be 2 Weeks Ready (2WR).

Confessions, a new book by John Cobb, includes a concluding chapter and an appendix with Guidelines for Weekly Earth Crisis Support Groups and Potluck Parties by Bonnie Tarwater.

The book is available on Amazon.
Links to the audio are provided above.