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Posts Categorized: Eco-Theology

March 19, 2024

The Paradox of Collective Action: Isolation and Community in Climate Justice

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This piece is part of an ongoing series focused on the themes of “connection” and “community.” Follow the blog or check our Facebook page to see the other posts in the series as they’re published. In the ever-evolving narrative of climate justice, there exists a profound intersection with faith. For many, the urgency of protecting our planet stems from… Read more »
June 30, 2023

Mind the Buffers: Creating Zones of Health, in Nature and in Our Lives

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Several weeks ago, I shared some thoughts about the teen mental health crisis and pointed to some theories about what’s causing it. (Reminder: I believe it’s a little of everything.) Since I wrote it, even more articles have come my way, many of them pointing to social media as a root cause, though as I said before,… Read more »
September 27, 2018

Step By Step: Faithfully Seeking Climate Justice

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Rising up for climate justice  Presbyterians share their thoughts from a recent climate march     On September 8, tens of thousands of people gathered in marches around the world to walk with creation and for climate justice with Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice.  Here are the stories of three Presbyterians who joined this movement.  Marching… Read more »
April 13, 2018

justleros: more than nonsense / más que disparates

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Open our minds A Revised Common Lectionary resource for April 15 by Magdalena I. García “Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures.” – Luke 24:45 Read the full lectionary passage here When we waste food while others go hungry, open our minds to understand the scriptures. When we ignore the homeless and judge… Read more »
February 2, 2018

Sightings

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Under My Feet Soundings In Soil And Stone by Ken Rummer   Under the ice, that’s where we would have been 14,000 years ago, if we’d been here, on this land where our house now stands. During a period of widespread glacial advance that geologists call the Wisconsin, a giant tongue of ice crept into… Read more »
July 31, 2017

My Faith at Work

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Kiss of death or saving grace? Cell biology teaches lessons of community by Elizabeth Jeffries Dinnertime every night was more than a meal; it was a family meeting. My parents, brothers and sister and I each shared a story about the day around the dinner table, and Dad always took his turn last. He was… Read more »
April 20, 2017

Unglued Church

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Sustainable church Learning from the farm-to-table journey By Ayana Teter Several weeks ago, I was scanning the Netflix library in search of a thoughtful documentary and took a chance on one entitled Sustainable. It was a video essay that detailed one group’s perspective on the farm-to-table journey by highlighting the rich and deep relationships between those… Read more »
January 29, 2016

Recovering Reverend

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You can take the pastor out of the church, but you can’t take the Church out of the pastor. Nothing is wastedHow I am learning to compost the rotten stuff that comes up in life by Derrick L. Weston In early December I took at day trip to a farm. The unseasonably warm weather made… Read more »
August 5, 2015

A Mote in Minerva’s Eye

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Seeing without categorizing   Drought dominoesWhat growing a garden in drought-stricken California has to do with the church by Anita Coleman The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never… Read more »

“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” — Luke 23:42

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