Loving thy palm grower as thyself, a growing number of churches opted last Sunday to celebrate Palm Sunday with palm fronds grown in conditions deemed both worker-friendly and environmentally sustainable.
As Brenda Meier, parish projects coordinator for Lutheran World Relief, told Religion News Service:
To have in our hand on Palm Sunday a palm that we know has been harvested in an ecologically friendly way, in a way that’s going to benefit the communities and the people who harvested them, adds that much more depth to our celebration of Palm Sunday.
Amen, sister.
