A majority of citizens in all 50 states supports continued U.S. participation in the 2015 Paris climate accord,as this Yale research on American opinion shows. About half of Trump supporters do as well. But not the White House. Last Thursday afternoon President Trump announced thathe will begin the process of withdrawing the U.S.from the historic […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]