Gods Green Earth
March 13, 2023 Source: Sojourners Excerpt: Over his career, Luther Williams has seen the impact...
March 13, 2023 Source: Christianity Today Excerpt: By nature, Christians have two superpowers. The first...
February 20, 2023 Source: Inside Climate News Excerpt: ST. JAMES, La.—The brown brick Roman Catholic...
Source: National Association of Evangelicals Excerpt: Record-breaking heat waves, widespread wildfires and other extreme weather...
Many people do not immediately recognize the direct relationship between faith, God and environmental activism—but in my 52 years with the Sisters of Mercy, I've seen the connection.
In her new book “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret,” Catherine Coleman Flowers refuses to conceal the toxic reality of environmental injustice in the U.S. She experienced it first-hand in her home of Lowndes County— just down the road from Selma, Alabama—where families’ health and safety is endangered by inadequate sanitation infrastructure. It’s a problem felt in America’s “Black Belt” as well as other rural communities around the country.
On a boat ride along a bayou that shares the name of his Native American tribe, Donald Dardar points to a cross marking his ancestors’ south Louisiana burial ground — a place he fears will disappear.
As colleagues at Messiah University, we share a core belief that God created our world and that our call as humans is to practice a responsibility to that created order. This idea of creation care teaches that there should be no separation between caring for God's world and caring for the neighbor whom God asks us to love.
Cross-posted from: Sojourners Addressing climate change is a faith-based obligation to “protect God’s creation,” say...
An island city’s billion-dollar route to climate resilience will need residential buy-in to succeed. Local places of worship could be pivotal.