Really looking forward to the GreenFaith Ground for Hope Bluegrass conference in Lexington this Saturday morning, 9:00-12:00, at Central Christian Church (205 East Short Street). I will be keynote speaker, and there will be workshops on creation themes in worship, religious education, and spiritual practice; on greening worship facilities; and on faith-based advocacy and fossil […]
Joining the swelling movement among churches, colleges, and cities across the country, last Saturday the Presbyteries of both Mid-Kentucky and Arkansas voted with six other presbyteries for an overture to the Presbyterian Church USA General Assembly recommending that the church divest from fossil fuel over the next five years, reinvesting our money instead in a […]
I am leading a conference at Montreat, the beautiful Presbyterian conference center outside of Asheville, NC, Thursday to Sunday, April 24-27. It’s called Inhabiting Eden (original, no?). I hope you will consider coming, and will pass the word to others. Here is the info on the Montreat website. Here is more information: Some think the […]
Been leading two middle east travel seminars, woke up to the call of the muezzins in Bethlehem. This morning we will worship at the Christmas Lutheran Church with the congregation of the Rev. Mitri Raheb. In the meantime, here is a link to an article of mine published last month in the journal Minding Nature, from […]
Carmichael’s Bookstore on Frankfort Avenue and Louisville welcomed more than forty people in from the snow and sleet for my first ever public book signing. Friends new and old came in–and strangers too. Nina Maples of Highland Baptist introduced me, and I talked about how the book came to be, read a little from it, […]
A sign of parental success is watching your children do greater things than you ever dreamed of. A couple of weeks ago I postedan interview with my daughter Claireabout her social work and teaching of family counseling in Pokhara, Nepal. Now it’s my son Ian Willey’s turn to take the spotlight. Dean of KIPP Washington […]
The natural world doesn’t care what humansthink. But it responds forcefully to what we actuallydo. Climate change was no threat for the first million years of human existence, not because we paid more attention then to the atmosphere’s carbon level, but because we hadn’t discovered fossil fuels and their energy […]
Sister Claire McGowan, an Energy Vision statement author Hooray for central Kentucky nuns! This past Tuesday, the 45th anniversary of Thomas Merton’s death, the Dominican Sisters and Associates of Peace, the Loretto Community, and the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and Associates hosted an interfaith prayer ritual to publicize the Energy Vision statement written in response […]
For those who follow my daughter Claire’s adventures and work in Pokhara, Nepal, here is a link to Claire at Kopila Nepal Prof. Brad Wigger’s interview of her in the latest Louisville Seminary Mosaic. It begins on page 10. Needless to say–but I’ll say it anyway–I am endlessly impressed with her and with all six of […]
Hereis a link to a guest blog just posted at the site Political Theology Today.