You might wonder what these lecture topics have in common. There is a relationship because they are but a few of the layers that constitute decades of human cruelty and misinformation.

Our summer lecture series began with a talk about Ed Sunday-Winters and Jeff Pierpont’s journey to Poland as part of a study of the holocaust.

Later in the summer we learned from Zoryan how pollinator gardens help our climate crisis.

The second talk in the Greensboro Summer Lecture series was by Zoryan Ivakhiv-Gray about the pollinator crisis and solutions. He started with an overview of pollinators, how we rely on them, and the reasons for their frightening recent decline, before getting into the different solutions that he has come across, on a small and large scale: pollinator gardening, pesticide activism, and creating a local pollinator working group. The latter, named PFG, short for Pollinator Friendly Greensboro, has been involved in various projects, such as events like the Greensboro and Hardwick PollinatorFests, working with initiatives like Pollinator Pathways to get more people involved, and will begin planting a demonstration garden in Greensboro Bend next spring. Pollinator gardening is a way for anyone to help save biodiversity, pollinators, and by extension many of our food crops. One starter resource is nwf.org/garden; you can learn how with the book. To learn more about what you can do, contact the group at [email protected], or check out or brand-new Facebook page, www.facebook.com/greensboro.pollinators.

Our final lecture pertained to the topic of White Christian Nationalism. You can read more about this on a previous letter from the Pastor (below).