Rise for Climate: A 40-Day Practice
Counting down to the day until people from around the globe take to the streets and Rise for...
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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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Time for NASA to Take Out the Trash
When General Synod approved a resolution in 2015 calling on church members to address the space...
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Murky: A Poem
At the Yale Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology, the following poem was read by Jennifer...
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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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An Earth Day Message
The following message was delivered at First Congregational Church of Sonoma, UCC, on Earth Day of...
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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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Climate and Faith in the Year 2100
The second of two excerpts from Jim Antal's recently released book Climate Church, Climate World....
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Regional Environmental Summits as a Way to Engage Youth
To Environmental Stewardship Mission Group of the New Hampshire Conference, I had suggested that...
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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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Bridging the Science Divide with New Documentary on Bill Nye
Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of...
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The Future Church amid Climate Disaster: A Letter from 2070
The first of two excerpts from Jim Antal's recently released book Climate Church, Climate...
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Dead Fish and Dead Satellites: Becoming a Space Age Environmentalist
Photo: Rolf Müller When I was a boy, I worried about dead fish and polluted rivers. I still...
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Church Rallies Community in Support of Climate Lawsuit Filed by Youth
The Earth Care Committee of First Congregational Church of Sonoma recently hosted a forum to hear...
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The Reluctant Radical: A Documentary for Churches to Screen
‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” 1 Sam 3:9 A new documentary called “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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