This week, we celebrated the most wonderful day in the Christian calendar – Easter. Our lives are filled with a time of spiritual renewal of faith and worship of Christ as our Lord and Savior. Add to that the joy…
Earth Day: Trump’s EPA promotes evangelical myth that environmentalism is a false religion
Today’s Earth Day commemoration is the first since the United States officially adopted the falsehood that conservative evangelicals have embraced for decades: That people concerned about the environment and climate change are motivated by anti-Christian religion. Lee Zeldin, President Donald…
Surrounded by trees: An Earth Day celebration and lament
One of the many blessings of my current home is its location. No matter what direction you look, you will see trees. And not just a few in our yard, but a forest. We are surrounded by majestic pines, maples…
How evangelicals promoted, then abandoned environmental stewardship
Rising temperatures made 2023 earth’s hottest year on record. Climate scientists say human activity increases heat-trapping gasses that contribute to weather-related disasters, which in 2022 forced more than 3 million Americans from their homes and cost the world $360 billion…
Regarding glue, humility and healing
When I was a little girl, my favorite time of the day was when the teacher brought out the glue, scissors and construction paper. Whether making cards for our parents or building a robot out of shapes — it didn’t…
Political gap on environment versus economy at widest point ever
On this year’s Earth Day, the gap between Republicans and Democrats on environmental protection is wider than the ozone hole in the earth’s atmosphere. Gallup reports “the gap between the parties has never been larger” when asked to consider tradeoffs…
Earth Day 2022: A time for the watchman on the wall
Here we are again — another Earth Day. Another opportunity to celebrate all that draws us closer to God through this beautiful and awe-inspiring world. In much of the United States, a taste of spring is bursting forth as we…
On Earth Day: Let’s walk on water together
The Apostle Peter may seem an odd subject choice for a message about Earth Day, but hear me out on this one. I always have felt a special affinity with Peter. He is the disciple of Jesus who seemed to…
On Earth Day, let us remember the earth is filled with God’s glory
“Let me seek, then, the gift of silence … where the sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is in all.” — Thomas Merton, “Thoughts In Solitude.” This…
Earth Day: the amazing dung beetle and lessons on loving all God’s creation
Without dung beetles, greenhouse gases (from methane produced by animals) would be orders of magnitude greater than at present, more than all the vehicle exhaust on earth.
Earth Day’s 50th anniversary: eerie similarities between an environmental crisis and a global pandemic
We must begin NOW to create a “new normal,” refusing to go back to the world before COVID-19. Our experience of resurrection and death transformed into new life – even one with the scars of our woundedness – can guide and motivate us.
Earth Day: an urgent call to creation care and environmental justice
Earth Day is a reminder that environmental justice and climate change solutions must move beyond a new appreciation of creation to include listening to and learning from the poor and marginalized of our own communities and the voices of those from around the world.