The “Secret Ingredients” for Climate Justice
In a recent New Yorker article, there is a photo of an eight-year-old girl named Avery Tsai at a...
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Three Great Loves and Climate Action
In partnership with Blessed Tomorrow, the UCC has produced Three Great Loves and Climate Action: A...
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Farm Church as Embodied Spirituality: An Interview with Sarah Horton-Campbell
This past year saw the birth of a new UCC church: Common Life Church & Farm. The church is...
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Singing Our Way to the Top: The Struggle for Climate Justice
The biblical scholar Robert Altar paints a vivid picture of pilgrims ascending up Mount Zion to...
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Faith and the Vulnerability of Children
In the Gospel reading for this Sunday, we are faced with the agonizing vulnerability of a 12-year...
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Flip the Switch: Preterm Births and a Moral Opportunity
Imagine that you have the opportunity to improve the lives of countless persons by simply flipping...
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Grasshopper Theology: From Climate Disaster to the Promised Land
Recently, as I undertook my daily devotional practice of reading a chapter from the Bible on my...
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Theologies of Genocide and Earth Day Ethics
Lorie Shaull While waiting to speak at an environmental event earlier this year, another speaker...
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Commentary: Theologies of Genocide and Earth Day Ethics
While waiting to speak at an environmental event earlier this year, another speaker told me a...
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The Case for Earth Day as a Celebration of the Church
Some years ago a sermon title caught my eye. Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon had announced the...
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The Return of the Lorax: A Children’s Sermon
How many of you have read the Dr. Seuss story The Lorax? In this book, a young boy visits someone...
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Some years ago I became acquainted with the concept of “fan fiction.” For those unfamiliar with...
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For the Love of Children: A New Column
With my six-year-old daughter, I am always careful not to push my own passions onto her due to...
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The Letter Manifesto: Children and Climate
Dear Parents, Grandparents, and Anyone Who Has a Heart for Children, Let me begin with a...
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Movement Theology: Leon White Reflects Back on a Movement’s Start
On September 15th of 1982, more than 125 people gathered at Coley Springs Baptist Church in Warren...
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Grass That Grows Thru the Crack: Gratitude Amid Hard Times
More than one classic cartoon character has been portrayed as being so beset by misfortune that he...
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Uprisings and Churches: A Resource for Churches Seeking Change
A number of years ago as a divinity school student I found myself attending a rally for the...
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Climate Connections: From Scripture to the Pressing Issue of Our Generation
Reflection on the October 29th Lectionary Reading—Matthew 22:34-46 With a lawyer on the attack,...
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The Find a Better Bank Toolkit
When members of Northshore UCC discovered that their church’s bank helped finance the Dakota...
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Climate Connections: From Scripture to the Pressing Issue of Our Generation
Reflection on the October 1st Lectionary Reading—Exodus 17: 1-17 It has been said that climate...
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