Facing a Crisis of Health and Inequality
In the past few weeks, it has become apparent that the present moment necessitates a war on...
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Tell Your Story!
10) Throughout the process of mobilizing, tell your story! Make what you do visible at your...
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Become a Kairos Mobilization Hub
9) Become a kairos mobilization hub. Create ways to inspire church members to connect what they do...
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Call on Officials for Green New Deal
8) Through town halls, delegations, candidate forums, emails, and petitions, call upon elected...
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Call for Values Based Voting
7) Make every election a time to call for values-based voting that expresses care for creation and...
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Divest from Fossil Fuels
6) Divest from fossil fuels and move church money out of “dirty” banks In 2013, the United...
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Become Carbon Neutral or Carbon Negative Church
5) Become a carbon neutral or a carbon negative/climate positive church. For a church, to be...
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Cultivate for Justice
4. Cultivate gardens, landscapes, and appetites in the struggle for justice. Through church-based...
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Environmental Justice History and Zero Waste
3. Know Your Environmental Justice History and Become a Zero Waste Church Learn about the...
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Worship and the Kairos Moment
2. Plan inspired worship that continually focuses attention on this kairos moment. Have a...
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Study and Immersion
1. Enter a period of study and immersion. Through visits and immersion experiences, form lasting...
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Commentary: Woe to the Unambitious: Greta as Prophet
Prophets provoke a reckoning, a moment of truth that cannot be denied. The illusion of...
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Commentary: Children under Environmental Threat from Administration
As my daughters begin school this week, I find myself in a state of agonized worry. It is not...
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Youth as Climate Prophets
"I am looking forward to having the world see the incredible power my generation holds." ...
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How Martin Luther King, Jr. Connects to Environmental Justice: Past and Present
Some may initially scratch their heads over the idea that Martin Luther King, Jr. could be...
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Mary’s Song and Justice for #EachGeneration
There is a particular cultural outlook that continually reappears in the Bible but never seems to...
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From Bonn to Cleveland: Climate Hope
On a daily basis, I interact with one of the most effected populations in the Cleveland area when...
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Climate Connections: From Scripture to the Pressing Issue of Our Generation
Reflection on the October 15th Lectionary Reading—Exodus 32: 1-14Those who know me know that I...
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Commentary: With Hurricane Harvey, a Compassion Deficit and Trump’s Paris Problem
When hurricanes or floods strike, we often witness a remarkable mobilization of compassion through...
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With a Meal at the Heart of Worship, a Church Connects with Creation
After graduating from Harvard Divinity School in 2014, Zach Kerzee received the support of the...
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