Presbyterian Mission Agency Environment Archives

Osage Nation scholar wraps up ‘Just Creation’ conference by retelling his nation’s creation story

Posted March 20th, 2023

By way of introducing the “Just Creation” gathering’s final keynoter, Dr. Tink Tinker, Dr. Mark Douglas of Columbia Theological Seminary said Saturday that the best conferences “deepen what I know and disrupt what I know.” Tinker, an American Indian and citizen of Osage Nation and a professor emeritus at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, told conference-goers he is “somebody who is working very hard to decolonize my own mind and to speak out of a worldview distinctly different from the Euro-Christian worldview.”

‘Just Creation’ panelists air their thoughts on our fragile atmosphere

Posted March 19th, 2023

The third and final panel that spoke as part of Columbia Theological Seminary’s “Just Creation” conference Saturday addressed the air we breathe after previous panels had taken on the Earth and water.

‘Just Creation’ panelist: ‘I don’t have to fix the world. I just have to be faithful’

Posted March 18th, 2023

After a panel assembled for the “Just Creation” conference put on by Columbia Theological Seminary and many partners took on the topic of the planet we inhabit on Friday, a second panel was asked later that day to speak about water.

‘Just Creation’ panelists describe the places on Earth that helped form them

Posted March 18th, 2023

A Friday plenary session during Columbia Theological Seminary’s Just Creation conference included panelists remembering a patch of Earth that’s special to them.

Environmental Defense Fund vice president opens Just Creation conference with insights into a beloved psalm

Posted March 17th, 2023

Heather McTeer Toney, Vice President for Community Engagement with the Environmental Defense Fund, opened the Just Creation conference at Columbia Theological Seminary Thursday by diving into Psalm 24:1-2, a favorite passage among those advocating for and working at Creation care: “The Earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world and those who live in it, for [God] has founded it on the seas and established it on the rivers.”

PC(USA) pastor and professor describes ways to read the Bible from the Earth’s perspective

Posted March 14th, 2023

Speaking to a Presbyterians for Earth Care audience during a webinar last week, the Rev. Dr. Paul Galbreath was able to help viewers read biblical texts — especially those describing the events of Holy Week — from the perspective of the Earth.

Presbyterian pastors team up to bring awareness to a land deal that will harm Native people in Arizona

Posted March 9th, 2023

A bill introduced Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives to prevent copper mining on a location sacred to several tribal nations in Arizona is being applauded by two Presbyterian pastors who have visited the Oak Flat site and met with tribal leaders there.

Columbia Theological Seminary to host ‘Just Creation’ conference March 16-18

Posted March 2nd, 2023

Following environmental concerns brought about by last month’s train derailment in Ohio, Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia, is offering the national conference “Just Creation — Shalom for Our Common Home” March 16-18. The conference is available both in person and online.

Presbyterians among those rattled by fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio

Posted February 15th, 2023

A recent train derailment in northeastern Ohio traumatized some residents and exposed a subject that many people don’t think about from day to day: What hazardous chemicals are traveling through my community?

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery is one of 18 national runners-up for Interfaith Power & Light’s ‘Cool Congregations’ awards

Posted February 14th, 2023

Mid-Kentucky Presbytery is one of the 18 national Interfaith Power & Light 2023 Cool Congregations Challenge awarded a $500 runner-up award.