Our climate practices must change post-pandemic
The inequalities of the world have been highlighted by the pandemic, and climate change will continue to threaten all of us, starting with the most vulnerable, says an author and professor.
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Otis Moss III: Care for the land is intimately tied to Black liberation
An urban megachurch on Chicago’s South Side is a leader in creation care, drawing upon the congregation’s history and addressing its current needs.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
By Yonat Shimron
Journalist
A nonprofit works to 'green' the Black church
Green The Church encourages African American congregations to commit to an environmental theology that promotes sustainable practices and helps build economic and political change.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
By Yonat Shimron
Journalist
Drop that bug spray! God created ants, too
When considering God’s creation, we tend to picture soaring eagles and stately redwoods. But what about the ants, spiders and fruit flies that live all around us? asks an entomologist and ethicist.
Link to author John Hainze
By John Hainze
Entomologist and ethicist
Jennifer R. Ayres: Why inhabitance is the paradigmatic human vocation
The earth is a dwelling place, and human beings need to tend to that place as they would tend to their households, says the author of a book about ecological religious education.
Decolonizing our American Christianity
Harmful ideas of feminine submission and the subduing of the earth are connected in American Christianity and must be decolonized, writes the author and Potawatomi citizen.
Link to author Kaitlin Curtice
By Kaitlin Curtice
Author and speaker
Diana Hall: A call for Lenten action on climate change
Organizations all over the world encourage religious leaders and their communities to explore how the church can work to care for creation.
Jeffrey Bilbro: Wendell Berry exemplifies sustainable life
From the city to the suburbs, Wendell Berry can help us imagine virtuous forms of living, says the author and Spring Arbor University associate professor.
On Earth Day, people of faith need to take action on climate change
In our current ecological crisis, we must emphasize humanity’s role as both stewards and creatures in God’s creation, writes a theologian.
Link to author Grace Ji-Sun Kim
By Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Professor, Earlham School of Religion
Debra Dean Murphy: Mary Oliver and other poets can help us perceive -- and protect -- the natural world
The disciplined reading of poetry can inculcate a mindset of paying deep attention to the world around us, says a scholar.
David Conover: Regarding nature with wonder
In “Behold the Earth,” a filmmaker combines music, science and Christian faith in a beautiful and moving documentary intended to rekindle an awareness of our connection with nature.
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