This is Church and You Are Needed Inside & Out
Watch this message from our churchwide leaders and fellow members across the country who recognize the tough, uncomfortable work of ...
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Ways to Integrate Creation Care in your Lenten Practices
During the season of Lent (or any other time of introspection), share these resources with your Bible Study group, Worship ...
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Creation Care Ambassador Program
The training and networking opportunities developed between the ELCA and ecoAmerica's Blessed Tomorrow have become even more accessible! There is ...
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Five Theses for Earth Day (Rhoads & Santmire)
The Board of Directors of Lutherans Restoring Creation thanks Rev. Dr. David Rhoads and Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire for ...
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Just Transitions Conversation (March 2021)
Listen in to our discussion with Ruth Ivory-Moore, ELCA’s Program Director, Environment and Corporate Social Responsibility Focus: Just Transitions What ...
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Enchantments of the Mississippi: a contemplative journey of time and place (2022)
Thomas Becknell has taken a deep and lingering look into one of our greatest rivers. Folded into the ripples of ...
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Parable of the Sower (1993)
Octavia E. Butler's dystopian tale offers a wealth to the imagination for any Bible Study/Creation Care team to wrestle with. ...
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Who Are the People in your “Neighborhood”?
Connections Call conversation from October 26, 2021 about all the people in our web of creation care. Listen in to ...
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A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming
A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming by Sallie McFague (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008). A New Climate ...
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Connections Call: How Church Soil Can Feed the Community
This call (video below) happened on May 18, 2021 Focus: How Church Soil Can Feed the Community We were excited ...
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Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus (2020)
What does the Bible say about ecology? As people face huge ecological challenges--including growing hurricanes, floods, forest fires, and plastic ...
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How do you bring up climate change in church?
There are so many examples from our brothers and sisters across the nation sharing exciting and authentic ways of conversing ...
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Saving Us, Katharine Hayhoe
We have been grateful for the shared knowledge and experience shared by climate scientist and fellow person of faith, Katharine ...
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Voices from the ELCA – Caring for Creation Today
Watch God's Work. Our Hands. created in partnership with ecoAmerica's BlessedTomorrow ELCA churches across the country are working to serve ...
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Rooted & Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis (2019)
Rooted and Rising is for everyone who worries about the climate crisis and seeks spiritual practices and perspectives to renew ...
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Amending the Christian Story: The Natural Sciences as a Window into Grounded Faith and Sustainable Living
After several years of research and writing and teaching, with worldview-altering insights into Nature's natural sciences and life's experience, "Amending ...
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Why We Need an Eco-Reformation
There are voices across the ELCA calling for a reformation of the church to encompass care for all of God’s ...
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Rev. H. Paul Santmire writes for the rest of us
Behold the Lilies: Jesus and the Contemplation of Nature: A Primer (2017) Read a chapter: From Lake Wobegon to the ...
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Larry Rasmussen’s Lecture for the Bonhoeffer Lectures in Public Ethics at Union Seminary
Voices from science, ethics, and theology on Eco-Reformation. Veni, Creator Spiritus! An Ecological Reformation Veni, Creator Spiritus! Once a World Council ...
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Lutheran Study Guide to Pope Francis’ Letter on Climate Change
This is a four week study intended for church adult education, college, or seminary classrooms. The study takes up the theme ...
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A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth’s Ecology (Augsburg Fortress, 2011)
A Watered Garden: Christian Worship and Earth's Ecology by Ben Stewart is excellent for worship committees and small group study. Check ...
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Stewarding the Gift of Water: ELCA Advocacy Fact Sheet
Theological background and information on water stewardship globally, nationally, and locally. Under the “Find Your Watershed” section of the Factsheet ...
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GreenFaith: Mobilizing God’s People to Save the Earth
GreenFaith: Mobilizing God's People to Save the Earth gives concrete examples and tips that will help people of faith and ...
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EarthBound video series – Now Available Streaming!
This timeless series, filmed in high definition, takes Martin Luther´s breakthrough understanding of Justification and Vocation and explodes it across ...
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Water and Ecotheology: Articles by Benjamin Stewart
Stewart, Benjamin M. “Stream, Flood and Spring: Water Renewing the Earth and the Church.” Living Lutheran, April 2016. (available online) Stewart, Benjamin ...
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Disruption (film)
Click here to view this film to understand the urgency of action on climate change. Online and free ...
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Renewal: Stories from America’s Religious Environmental Movement
www.renewalproject.net (Eight feature stories from a variety of faith traditions) ...
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Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth
Green Living: The E Magazine Handbook for Living Lightly on the Earth (New York: Penguin, 2005) Knowledge of environmental issues and ...
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