Board of Directors
Barbara Rossing loves to teach and preach on ecology and the Bible. She taught New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago for 30 years, also serving as the seminary’s Environmental Ministry coordinator. Now retired in the Cascade Mountains of Washington, she continues to write, hike, ski, preach, protest, volunteer as supply pastor at Faith Lutheran in Leavenworth, and serve on the Northwest Intermountain Synod Eco-Faith Action Team.
Barbara’s favorite Bible image is the tree of life for healing, from the book of Revelation. Her publications include The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation as well as chapters on Revelation, climate justice, eschatology, global mission, apocalyptic ecology, and the Bible.
Barbara worked two summers as a ranger naturalist at Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, “best job ever.” After serving as pastor at Holden Village, she earned her doctorate in New Testament at Harvard University Divinity School.
In her lectures and articles about the climate crisis, she names our moment as a biblical “kairos moment” for hope. See her St. Paul Area Synod keynote bible study, “Seven Things That Give Me Hope for the Climate Crisis”, and her Living Lutheran Magazine article, “The World is About to Turn—behold!”
She is happy to be back on the LRC board after serving six years previously, and hopes to help the church work on climate justice.