This spring Dr. Tyler Mayfield and I have been leading a seminary class at my home in Henryville called Faith and Creation. Every Monday afternoon we gather 15 students to learn with us about a different environmental topic. The students first spend about 10 minutes checking on their chosen tree, to observe its changes as […]
For several years, ever since I was invited to visit Kisumu, Kenya, to preach and teach to congregations of the Africa Inland Church, I’ve been partnering with Bishop Tom Ochuka there to grow their environmental ministry. In particular, they have created a tree nursery, sowing and giving away 10,000 native seedlings a year to schools, […]
The fear I hear most often expressed about climate change is that of losing hope. Indeed, so much confronts us with the enormity, the frightening prospects of failure, frustration of living in a world subject to politicians and industries who ignore, deny, and play tricks to upend climate efforts. The recent hype against induction cooking […]
Presbyterians for Earth Care hosted the webinar Older Adults and Climate Change on Tuesday, January 24. Registration and attendance were very high, for which we presenters (Bruce Gillette, PEC moderator; Dan Terpstra; Jim Antal; and I) were grateful. Here is an article about the webinar that appeared the following day from the Presbyterian News Service. […]
Webinar is this Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 7:30 pm Eastern Tim! Sign up here. And, here are some resources I’ve assembled for helping everyone implement climate action: “A Brief but Spectacular Take on Working Together for Climate Action,” PBS News Hour with Bill McKibben. Patricia K. Tull, “A Faithful Third Act,” Presbyterian Outlook, January […]
This article, A Faithful Third Act, just appeared in the Presbyterian Outlook. Many thanks to Dan Terpstra for urging me to write it, and to Outlook editor Teri Ott for asking me not only to write it but to expand it. The article anticipates a webinar called Climate Change and Older Adults, that I will be doing […]
Last month I preached and led a workshop at the annual meeting of the Kentucky Council of Churches meeting, which was held virtually. The theme was Genesis 1:31a: “And God saw all that God had made, and indeed, it was very good.” The worship and sermon on “It Was Very Good” were prerecorded, and we […]
I’ve had several requests to view the presentations I gave last spring about our net-zero house in Henryville, so I’m gathering access to all three recordings here. The first was with Tri-State Creation Care in Evansville, Indiana last January. It features our builder Nick Romeo in the Q&A portion. They sent me a copy of […]
Yesterday my friend the Rev. Dr. Shelley Wiley, who recently came with her spouse Jon Vanderglas to visit and is preparing to lead a congregational Bible study using Inhabiting Eden, sent me a Facebook post shared by her cousin in Georgia about electric vehicles. She wondered how to respond. As the happy owner of a […]
I’m out in Pullman, Washington, visiting my daughter Claire’s family for the first time in nearly two years. I hadn’t seen their three-year-old son Neil in all that time, so there is a lot of catching up to do. I am grateful for the speedy development of vaccinations that made this visit possible. We had […]