I was on my way to several days of meetings in Indianapolis this past Wednesday, having said to various family members and friends, “please pray for me!,” when I received a couple of emails–one from a friend and one from a stranger–about that very thing: they were praying for me, and for us. Turns out […]
Collaboration–what a concept in the nonstop world of competitive partisanship, where millions are spent promoting one message, one candidate, one worldview over against another, while children skip meals. The day before the crashing finale of the most disturbing presidential race ever, “bipartisan” seems pretty remote. But it is happening in some places. Groups like the Friends […]
The Rev. John Shuck’s Progressive Spirit radio interview with me is now available on podcast here. I’m not the world’s smoothest talker–I’d rather write any day than try to sound coherent on the radio–but he did a great job: asking important questions, responding conversationally, and editing out some of my uhhs and ahhs. Thanks, John! […]
May must be Audio Month. On the same day I gave one of the Spirit Is Willing webinars with Georgia Interfaith Power & Light, I also had a radio interview with the Rev. John Shuck, who hosts Progressive Spirit on KBOO Community Radio out of Portland, Oregon, a show that has hosted the likes of Jim […]
Here are recordings of the three webinars in the series “The Spirit Is Willing and We Are Not Faint,” cosponsored by Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and Hoosier IPL: Rethinking Scripture, Humans, and Creation: Five perspectives for a creation care ethic grounded in faith. Click here to view this webinar. Creating Social Movements for Change: Resources […]
First the announcement: Three-part webinar in May, hosted by Georgia Interfaith Power & Light and led by me, coming up on Wednesdays (May 11, 18, 25), 12:00 noon Eastern. Here are the parts: · May 11: Rethinking Scripture, Humans, and Creation: Five perspectives for a creation care ethic grounded in faith. · May 18: Creating […]
In a culture that can’t think past the next 24-hour news cycle, religion still reads stories hundreds of centuries deep. The Abrahamic faiths worship a God who shows “steadfast love to the thousandth generation” (Exod 34:7). Genesis 12 begins the story of Abraham’s call by God. Every promise God gives Abraham has a long horizon, […]
Yesterday our congregation, First Presbyterian Church of Jeffersonville, dedicated our first solar array: 48 panels, 12.96 kW of generating power. Never having done this before, we sort of made up what you do when you consecrate solar panels. First Don gave a lovely sermon about the importance of acting as “conservators” of creation, based on […]
My previous post discussed the biblical claim, derived from Genesis, Job, and Psalms, that God made the whole creation to flourish, and loves every being in it. In this post I’ll describe the deep relationship scriptural writers draw between violence against humans and violence against the earth. I used to have Hebrew students translate the […]
Last month I gave three lectures and two workshops at the biennial Presbyterians for Earth Care conference at Montreat, where 140 dedicated people gathered from all over the U.S. for worship, workshops, learning, and enjoyment of western North Carolina’s exquisite countryside. Since then I’ve spoken nine times in five different cities. The air everywhere is […]