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Building Thriving Congregations: Faith in Action
There has never been a more important time for the faith community to lead. Congregations that actively live out their faith have a ripple effect on the world with the greatest impact on local communities…
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Mosques Encouraged to Go Green
God has appointed humanity as trustees of Earth. Unfortunately, humanity’s increasing footprint is causing unprecedented resource depletion and environmental degradation…
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Apply for the Adamah Climate Action Fund!
So much feels out of our control, like rising temperatures. According to NASA, the summer of 2023 was the hottest on record for our planet and just recently (July 22, 2024) the globe reached the hottest daily temperature ever measured (and may even have been surpassed by the time this is published)…
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Brian McLaren’s New Book Encourages Climate Leadership To Stand With Love
Alarmed. Worried. Disturbed. That’s how many of us have felt during this election cycle. Through the primaries to the general election, we’ve heard candidates saying things that bring shock and dismay. Some have fanned into flame old unextinguished embers of prejudice and nativism. Some have proposed that we impose a religious test on immigrants. Some…
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5 Things Faith Leaders Should Know About America’s Complex Climate Opinions
Many Americans consider faith leaders to be their most influential guides in navigating social and political issues. As we near November's presidential election(s), the broad and complex network of ideologies, political affiliations, and social associations have expanded existing categories to create new subdivisions on the issue of climate change. As the political and social landscape…
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Eid al-Adha Heats Up As Muslims Endure The Changing Climate Of Hajj
Early next week (depending upon the Hijri calendar), Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid al-Adha (Festival of the Sacrifice) to honor the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his son. Not to be confused with Eid al-Fitr which signifies the conclusion of Ramadan – Eid al-Adha coincides with two million Muslims descending on Mecca…
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The Moral Case To Curb Methane Waste And Pollution
Religious communities are actively engaged in many activities to care for and do justice for God’s creation. One of the less-known efforts has been a sustained push by many religious leaders to cut methane waste and pollution. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is dangerous for our climate. It is the primary component of…
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How The Season of Creation Is Uniting Global Christians In Climate Action
The Season of Creation is once again upon us! On September 1st, faith communities around the world will join in a collective recognition of God’s sacred creation. From its beginning as an Eastern Orthodox celebration initiated by Patriarch Dimitri in 1989, the liturgical season has grown to a global ecumenical festival involving 2.2 billion Christians,…
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Why This Autumn Will Be A Hot Time for Climate Solutions
As I write this, the world just had its hottest month in recorded history. Here in Washington D.C, where July is normally our hottest month of the year, we had our sixth hottest July on record. Our unusually hot days are combining with the quieter, less frenetic pace of activity that D.C. usually experiences in…
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The Climate Complacency Of Taylor Swift In An Age Of Value-Based Identity Politics
Taylor Swift will solve climate change. That’s not true, but statistically, that line is 97% more likely to show up in your newsfeed than other climate content considering its mention of the pop singer. A similar disparity in Google searches during the Paris Climate Agreement revealed that most Americans were more concerned with Kim and…
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The Religious Liberty of Creation Care: A Constitutional Right
From its inception, the U.S. Constitution has expounded virtues of pluralistic liberty and religious freedom under the First Amendment, but how does that apply to faith institutions mandated to care for God’s creation? Isaiah Berlin famously explored the nuances of democratic freedom in his critically acclaimed 1958 essay, Two Concepts of Liberty. The now famous…
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United Church of Christ and Disciples of Christ Empower Young People To “Believe” In God’s Creation
From July 26th to July 30th, the United Church of Christ and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) co-hosted the National Youth Event at Walt Disney World in Florida. The quadrennial conference gathered 4,000 young leaders to convene on broader issues of faith, leadership, service and social justice. This year’s event elevated a call…
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Houses Of Worship Bring Climate Values To U.S. House of Representatives
“This election is about climate change, the greatest environmental crisis facing our planet,” shared former presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders during his speech at the Democratic National Convention. His claim was unanimously praised by both Bernie or Bust and I’m With Her delegates who enthusiastically cheered the common theme throughout the Convention. This was to be…
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Does America Need Its Own Green Climate Fund?
As I wrote in a blog last month, the faith-based stewardship covenant and work of Tangier Island watermen and their families, inspired the landowners I worked with in Bedford County, Pennsylvania to take their own stewardship covenant. Their example inspired the Evangelical Climate Initiative, an important evangelical call to action for national climate solutions. So…