Join Lutherans Restoring Creation, Creation Justice Ministries, BlessedTomorrow and the Center for Climate Justice and Faith as we explore “Building A Moral Economy: Building Pathways for People of Courage,” by Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda. It’s the first book in a series for people who want to live in ways that build justice, joy, and life-giving relationships with people far and near. As we read the book together, we will host “book club” sessions, and then come together for a Q&A with the author! Join for any or all.
Book Club Information:
Please feel free to join any of these sessions you would like. Each session is stand-alone, and we will discuss topics from the entire book. You are welcome no matter how much of the book you have made it through!
Please use the discount code before 7/31/25 to receive 30% off!
Code: BME30
Sat. July 12th at 1 pm EST with Phoebe Morad, Lutherans Restoring Creation: bit.ly/bame-1
Wed. July 23rd at 3pm EST with Sarah Berg, Center for Climate Justice and Faith: bit.ly/bame-2
Tues. August 12th at 12pm EST with Rev. Derrick Weston, Creation Justice Ministries: bit.ly/bame-3
Thurs. August 26th at 7pm EST with Gabrielle Irle Lutherans Restoring Creation: bit.ly/bame-4
Q&A with Author
9/30 5pm PST/ 8pm EST
More about Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda:
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and many parts of North America in theological ethics addressing matters of climate justice as related to race and class, economic globalization, moral agency and hope, public church, faith-based resistance to systemic injustice, and ethical implications of resurrection and incarnation. Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Award for social justice. She also is author of Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (Fortress, 2002), Public Church: For the Life of the World (Fortress, 2004); co-author of Saint Francis and the Foolishness of God (Orbis, 1993, 2015), Say to this Mountain: Mark’s Story of Discipleship (Orbis, 1996), and The Bible and Ethics: A New Conversation (Fortress Press, 2018); and co-editor of How Would We Know What God is Up To? (Aosis, 2022). Her published articles and chapters number nearly 50.
Moe-Lobeda is Founding Director of the PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith. She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a more equitable international financial and economic architecture. Her awards include the Provost’s Outstanding Scholarship Award from California Lutheran University in 2019, the Outstanding Scholarship Award from Seattle University (College of Arts and Sciences) in 2013, appointment as Seattle University’s Wismer Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies from 2011-2013, the St. Francis Award from Earth Ministry, and the Public Leadership Award from Lutheran Public Policy Office. She was appointed theological consultant to a former Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has served as a health worker/church worker in Honduras and as Director of the Washington, D.C. office of Augsburg College’s Center for Global Education. She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Tikkun Magazine, and Dialog: A Journal of Theology.
Moe-Lobeda currently serves as Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where she is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty. Her doctoral degree in Christian Ethics is from Union Theological Seminary. She loves hiking in the woods and mountains, and spending time with family and dear friends.