Get involved! As a pastor you can be a leader in creation care. On this page, you will find resources and examples for what you can do in your role in parish life. Our worship section also holds items that may be useful, including lectionary commentaries.
Season of Creation: Focusing Worship on God as Creator
We offer creation focused commentaries for every week and lectionary cycle, but what about taking a step back and spend ...
Youth Gather and We All Grow!
Back in the summer of 2018 hundreds of youth and group leaders visited our Lutherans Restoring Creation space in the ...
EcoActivist Testament: Faith Explorations for Fellow Travelers
Written for younger generations of ecoactivists, Paul Santmire's latest book, EcoActivist Testament: Faith Explorations for Fellow Travelers provides solace in ...
Tool Kit on Climate Change Connections
Take yourself, your class, or your congregation on a journey that explores the intersections between climate change and hunger with ...
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 ...
Reflections on Swedish Bishops’ Letter on Climate Change
On May 19, 2015, LSTC Professors Kadi Billman, Barbara Rossing, and Vítor Westhelle, reflected on A Bishops' Letter about Climate ...
Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living
Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living by Nick Spencer, Robert White, and Virginia Vroblesky (Peabody: Hendrickson, 2009). Amounts and patterns of ...
Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth
Last Chance: Preserving Life on Earth by Larry Schweiger of the national Wildlife Federation (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2009). "This is ...
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert (New York: Bloomsbury, 2006) Long known for her insightful and ...
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergence of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore Emmaus, PA: ...
Forecast: The Consequences of Global Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, From Darfur to Napa Valley
Forecast: The Consequences of Global Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, From Darfur to Napa Valley by Stephen Faris (New York: Henry Holt, 2009) ...
If there’s global warming, why is it so cold? (video)
If there's global warming, why is it so cold? (video) ...
National Preach-In on Climate Change: Sermon for Epiphany 5A
Sermon for Epiphany 5A, the Rev. Lisa E. Dahill, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Worship and Christian Spirituality, Trinity Lutheran Seminary IPL Climate ...
National Preach-In on Climate Change: Sermon for Epiphany 6A
Sermon for Sixth Sunday in Epiphany, Year A Deuteronomy 30:5-20 Saint Andrew and Emmaus Lutheran Churches, Racine WI February 16, ...
National Preach-In on Climate Change: Creation Salvation
Creation Salvation (link to the recording), Vicar Josh Buzbee, All Peoples' Church, Milwaukee WI, February 16, 2014 (or click here to download the ...
Resources for preaching on climate change
Resources for preaching on climate change from A New Awakening, an ecumenical movement for climate solutions ...
Climate Change and Poverty in the Household of God
Climate Change and Poverty in the Household of God by Brian E. Konkol Brian Konkol served in South Africa as ELCA ...
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming
Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming by David Reay (New York: MacMillan, 2005). Packed ...
A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming
A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming by Michael Northcott (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2005). In this groundbreaking book Northcott examines theological ...
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 ...
10-Minute Energy Saving Secrets: 250 Easy Ways to Save Big Bucks Year Round
10-Minute Energy Saving Secrets: 250 Easy Ways to Save Big Bucks Year Round, by Jerri Farris (Gloucester: Fair Winds, 2005) ...
Our 2023 Earth Day Virtual Worship!
Thank you for sharing our 2023 creation-focused worship service! Thank you to Rev. Dr. R. Guy Erwin who shared a ...
Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos Preaches – 2022 Earth Day Virtual Worship
Earth Day Online Worship - 2022 We were honored to have the Rev. Dr. Carmelo Santos share the message of ...
Northern IL Synod’s Season of Creation Resources
The Creation Care Committee of the Northern Illinois Synod happily provides valuable resources to make celebrating Season of Creation within ...
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
As institutions and individuals we have a hard time understanding and being in control of how our money is used ...
17 Ways to be an EcoPreacher
by Rev. Dr. Leah Schade Here are 17 ideas excerpted from my book Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology and the Pulpit (Chalice Press, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Healthy Pastor, Healthy Congregation, Healthier Planet
by Leah D. Schade Clergy have such high instances of stress, weight problems, hypertension, depression and heart problems that poor ...
