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, […]
A second patiently awaited supplement to Inhabiting Eden is now available to order. Now joining the book itself and the Reading and Writing Workbook is a Leaders’ Guide for discussing the book in Bible study groups, adult Vacation Bible School, retreats, and book clubs. The guide begins with an introduction to Inhabiting Eden and to […]
Strange how things converge. Just before a fabulous GreenFaith Fellows retreat at the Quaker retreat center Pendle Hill in eastern Pennsylvania, I was coached into doing two webinars. Within three days. With two different outfits. In between speaking to two classes of middle-schoolers at Sacred Heart school in Jeffersonville and teaching one Bible study at […]
The new workbook to accompany Inhabiting Eden was ready a month ago, and I’ve been selling them wherever I’ve been speaking, but I just now made time to set up the amazon.com page and to mention it in this blog. Here is the Amazon description: “This spiral-bound companion to the popular Bible study by Patricia […]
What a joy it was to preach this morning at Louisville Seminary for the Festival of Theology. Marian McClure snapped this shot of President Michael Jinkins and me just before we began. And while we are on pictures, here is one Greg Bezilla snapped while I was talking at the lovely Canterbury House at […]
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 […]
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 […]