Creation & Environment

Money and Activism: Faith-Fueled Investing to Fight Climate Change

October 14, 2021

Creation & Environment, Global, Practical Justice

As someone who has been in advocacy work for a while, I’ve begun to wonder how much all this 'righteous anger' accomplishes if we don’t learn to examine our own ethical choices as well.

In Opposition of the Line 3 Pipeline

Brian McLaren

September 16, 2021

Creation & Environment, Global, Practical Justice

Now, four years later, I want to follow up the heartfelt message of that video by expressing my public opposition to the Line 3 pipeline — and by asking you to add your voice as well.

Women of Faith Can Help Advance Climate Justice

Elizabeth Chun Hye LEE

September 13, 2021

Creation & Environment, Practical Justice, Women

Even though I am not a climate scientist, I recognize that the climate crisis is an existential threat impacting all of creation. As a woman and a person of faith, I have a unique responsibility to act.

A Love Song for the Long-Haul: LA UMC Pastors on Hurricane Ida Aftermath

Britney Winn Lee

September 10, 2021

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Practical Justice

The journey ahead is complex and rightly so—filled with both triage and rehab efforts, insurance claims and bucket truck parades, adrenaline highs and compassion fatigue, questions about climate change and environmental refugees, retelling the story, and sharing the load again and again and again.

The Morning After Ida Makes Landfall, a Prayer

Patrice Gopo

August 30, 2021

Creation & Environment, General, Practical Justice

Some days I wake in the morning disoriented, my mind mixing up my dreamscape with the reality of what transpires in life. In my dreamscape, my arms re...

Mother Earth Has Suffered Enough: We Need Stronger Methane Rules

Daryl Joe

July 13, 2021

Creation & Environment, Politics, Practical Justice

Rains and snows came when they were supposed to, bringing much needed refreshing to our community and land. Now, we are in a prolonged drought. We are in a national sacrifice zone with the nation’s largest methane hotspot hovering overhead.

A Time for Shalom

Nathan Hunt

June 24, 2021

Creation & Environment, General, Practical Justice

Six days a week we struggle for freedom. On the Sabbath, we sit in the liberating truth that we are already free. And as we dwell in Sabbath freedom, the freedom of Sabbath comes to dwell in us.

World Beyond Words

Lory Widmer Hess

March 3, 2021

Church Life, Creation & Environment, Practical Justice

Imperfect, abnormal, disabled in the eyes of the world, “despised and rejected of men,” it is they who meet life with the indomitable strength of the divine realm, while I faint and falter before every obstacle.