Awareness Is NOT the Primary Goal
What if Jesus’s main goal had been to raise awareness? Imagine Jesus as a non-stop...
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Getting to Know Marissa Clark
Marissa Clark is the UCC's Environmental Justice Fellow and lead organizer for the Climate...
Read MoreRight Before Your Eyes: Alaska and Climate Change
Thirty-three years ago, we visited various tourist destinations including Denali National...
Read MorePlanting a Bible Garden
Getting Started Outdoors When I started at Memorial United Church of Christ in Fitchburg,...
Read MoreSolar Dedications for Churches
The installation of solar panels can be a terrific occasion for a congregation to have a...
Read MoreEnergized by the Sun: A Church Solar Installation Inspires
At Peace Dale Congregational Church in Rhode Island, we installed rooftop solar that...
Read MoreElectrification: Resources for Congregations
In 2023, the delegates of the United Church of Christ’s 34th General Synod passed a...
Read MoreFree from Plastic Pollution: Five Actions Congregations Can Take
In 2023, the delegates of the United Church of Christ's 34th General Synod passed a resolution...
Read MoreWildfires and General Synod
Amid smoke that looked like fog, I traveled to General Synod last week on a Greyhound bus from...
Read MoreThe Vision behind Climate Hope Cards
In 2023, the United Church of Christ launched a campaign rooted in a history of calling for...
Read MoreGeneral Synod Hearing on Implementation of Resolution Urging Fossil Fuel Divestment and Other Strategies
At General Synod 29 in 2013, the Resolution Urging Divestment–Along with Other...
Read MoreSample Worship Moment for Climate Hope Cards
For churches participating in collecting UCC Climate Hope Cards that will be delivered to...
Read MoreClimate Hope Cards Toolkit
The United Church of Christ Climate Hope Cards campaign is an ambitious and exciting project...
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Successful Movements
Not that many years ago both churches and social movements dived into figuring out how to make...
Read MoreCaring for God’s Creation: A 2023 Statistical Snapshot of the UCC
The care of God’s creation is a central calling of Christians that has found unique...
Read MoreWith Young Adult Leadership, a Church Dives into Creation Justice
At Friedens UCC in Indianapolis, we thank God for the opportunity to serve with Sierra...
Read MoreStruggling Churches May Be Climate Justice Teachers
In January 2020, the UCC’s Council for Climate Justice issued a Kairos Call to Action which...
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Intergenerational Learning
This past year Edgewood United Church and Haslett Community Church in East Lansing, Michigan,...
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Land Ethics Reimagined: Revolutionary Implications for Churches
In researching land justice and Indigenous peoples, I came to know some remarkable...
Read MoreNature as a Healing Balm
Richard Louv, in his book, Last Child in the Woods, coins a term: Nature Deficit Disorder. ...
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