Best Practices for Creation Justice Churches
This ongoing series of best practices for Creation Justice Churches showcases important and innovative church programs that further creation care and justice. The writers of these articles come from churches that have successfully implemented these programs. Contact Brooks Berndt if you have a story idea about something your church has done.
- The Story of an Earth Care Festival by Elizabeth Griego
- Monthly Nature Walks by John Donnelly
- Educating a Congregation about Creation Justice by Vivian Johnson
- An Introduction to Season of Creation: A Liturgical Earthcare Practice by the Rev. Dr. Robert Shore-Goss
- Bringing Community Funded Solar to Your Church – Here’s One Way by Gary Smith, Jane Smith, and Skip Stoddard
- Church Habitat Restoration 101 by Jim Ruyle
- Safe and Sustainable Landscape Practices for Churches by Pam Schmidt
- Thumbprints for Footprints: A Cookie Sale for Planet Earth by Plymouth Church UCC of Shaker Heights
- A Church Considers the Meaning of Environmental Justice by Melissa Stephens
- Church Seeks to Build Butterfly Highway by Elizabeth Griego
- Worshippers Dedicate Pledges to Be Creation Care Voters by Barbara Darling
- Reversing Climate Change and Saving Money by Jerry Hartz
- Creation Care Moment: A Practice for Each Sunday by the Rev. Daniel Cooperrider
- Adventures in Screening Documentaries by the Rev. Jeff Spencer
- The Find a Better Bank Toolkit by Northshore UCC
- Ten Tips for Starting a Church Garden by Nancy Leckerling
- Four Practices of Sustainability and Vitality by Claremont UCC
- Effective Waste Management for Churches by Nancy Thursby
- The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil: Church Advocacy by Lon Dickerson
- From Active Hope to Sacred Circle: How a Book on Helped Organize a Church by David Weiss
- Creation Justice Activities for Churches to Do by Dawn Dole
- Raising Monarch Butterflies by Mitch Nelson
- Planting a Bible Garden by Rebecca Malke
- Solar Dedications for Churches by Various Authors
- A Solar Installation That Inspires by Don Hermes
- Intergenerational Learning by Addy Stuever
- Land Acknowledgements and Churches by Various Authors
- Young Adult Leadership and Creation Justice by Sarah Haas
- Vesper Worship Services Centered on Creation by Martha Gallagher
- Arts and Activism Lecture Series by Elisa Turner
- Sing for the Earth: Song Recommendations for Worship by Ruth Stiegel
- Composting for Churches by Hank Stonerook
- Community Supported Agriculture and Churches by Michael Mulberry
- Permaculture as a Climate Resilience Strategy by Craig Schaub and Meighan Pritchard
- Hope Community Solar Project by the Environmental Action Team (EAT) of Presbyterian-United Church of Christ (PUCC)
- A Baptism That Pledges a Congregation to Protect Creation by Dwight Wagenius
For further ideas, one can also read about the innovative practices of the UCC’s First Creation Justice Church and the suggestions that are part of The Kairos Call to Action.