By Olivia Smucker Whether through seminars, booth presentations or making global warming bracelets, there were many unique opportunities to engage with climate action at…
Read moreKansas church’s “tree funeral” encourages creation care
by Olivia Smucker Singing the closing hymn from atop a tree stump isn’t how most congregations would end their service, but New Creation Fellowship Church…
Read morePastoral Responses to Denial and Despair
Michigan: Who Cares About Climate Change?
A retreat for pastors, September 17 to 19 Monday, 5 p.m. through Wednesday, 1 p.m. At Camp Friedenswald, Cassopolis, MI About the Retreat Do you…
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The Bible and Ecology: Rediscovering the Community of Creation
by Douglas D. Kaufman Many Christians committed to sustainability know that our faith and our ecological commitments go together. But some of us struggle to…
Read moreStrangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
A book by Arlie Russell Hochschild. The New Press, New York, 2016. Disturbed by the deepening political divide in the United States, Hochschild sets out…
Read moreFor in [Christ] all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians 1:19 - 20