Our Window of Opportunity: A Time to Act
A liturgical resource for congregations undertaking focused on Kairos mobilization. Based on Luke...
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Downton Abbey and the Divided World of the Climate Crisis
After much anticipation, the Downton Abbey movie has arrived. For six seasons, beginning in 2011,...
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A Climate Kairos Confession
A Kairos moment may be pregnant with possibilities or stillborn with paralysis. Christians use the...
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Suffering from Climate Burnout? Learn from a Burnt Out Moses
After a couple of recent conversations with friends who confided that they were suffering from...
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Caring for the Trees: An Urban-Rural Divide
When it comes to caring for God’s creation with regard to our nation’s wooded lands, there is...
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A Call to Action in a David and Goliath Struggle
Dear Friends and Churches, I am pastor of East Weymouth Congregational Church, United Church of...
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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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Come Together to Pull Back from the Brink
If the General Synod of the United Church of Christ passed a resolution in support the "Back From...
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Creation Care Moment: A Practice for Each Sunday
At Weybridge Congregational Church, the beginning of worship every Sunday includes a Creation Care...
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Green New Deal Reading Challenge
Have you read the Green New Deal? The United Church of Christ chose to endorse it at its General...
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Jesus as an Anti-Colonialist: Why It Matters Today
If someone were to ask me why I am Christian, the scripture that comes to mind first is a passage...
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Climate Change Morality and the Titanic: Preventing Disaster
Imagine that you could travel back in time with one chance to avert the sinking of the Titanic....
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Three Actions to Support the Carbon Dividend Act
The General Synod of the United Church of Christ, in June 2019, voted in favor of a resolution to...
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UCC Participates in FCC Proceeding on Space Debris
According to experts, we are just a few uncontrolled crashes away from creating enough debris...
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5 Things You Can Do to Support the Green New Deal
What can churches and their members do to support the Green New Deal and actualize their care...
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Preaching on the Green New Deal
Seven preachers known for their work in caring for Creation were each asked to offer a tip on how...
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Churches as Laboratories of Love and Schools of Democracy
I have frequently thought of churches as laboratories of love—places in which we are constantly...
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Justice Buttons: Donate, Trade, and Collect at General Synod
For years, justice-themed buttons that one can pin on one's shirt, hat, or backpack have been a...
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You’ve Got a Job to Do!
I was speaking with some of my dearest brothers I have in ministry. I was complementing them on...
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Thumbprints for Footprints: A Cookie Sale for Planet Earth
For Earth Sunday, Plymouth Church UCC of Shaker Heights, Ohio decided to undertake an activity to...
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