When the Floods Come: A Good Samaritan or a Sadist?
The parable of the Good Samaritan presents us with two possible responses to suffering. There are...
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Must We Perish?: Infrastructure and Climate Change
The Fourth in a Series on Infrastructure Justice In the poetic lyricism of the King James Bible,...
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Race and the Miner’s Canary Revisited: Water Injustice in the US
The Third in a Series on Infrastructure Justice Some years ago, legal scholars Lani Guinier and...
Read MoreWhat Is Creation Justice and Why Does It Rock?
Written by Shantha Ready Alonso and Brooks Berndt For some, the phrase “creation justice” can...
Read MoreClimate Change from an International Perspective: An Interview with Dan Spencer
Dan Spencer is a professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. Spencer is an...
Read MoreNot a Sexy Problem, but a Scary One
The Second in a Series on Infrastructure Justice Try a new experiment today: Every time you use the...
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Infrastructure Justice: An Overdue Movement Whose Time Has Come
The First in a Series on Infrastructure Justice In the Bible, the physical state of a nation at...
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Bringing Community Funded Solar to Your Church – Here’s One Way
Written by Gary Smith, Jane Smith and Skip Stoddard Part of an ongoing series on best practices for...
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The UCC’s First Creation Justice Church!
In March, the UCC launched a new program called Creation Justice Churches. While “green church”...
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Church in Oregon Divests from Fossil Fuels
Riverside Community Church in Hood River has become the first faith-based congregation in the Gorge...
Read MoreCommentary: In Praise of House Parties
The first environmental gathering I ever attended was a house party. The plan was to watch a live...
Read MoreKeep It In the Ground
To mark Earth Day and save the planet, join the movement to keep 80% of fossil fuels in the...
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Would Jesus Give Up on Us?
Remember the bumper sticker, “Who would Jesus bomb?” It came to my mind recently as I read a...
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Creation Care Challenge
With the water crisis in Flint and the ongoing damage to our climate, our country is undergoing an...
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Keep It in the Ground: Preach It, Teach It, Do It
On Sunday, April 24th, UCC preachers around the country will proclaim from their pulpits a simple...
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California’s Dirty Secret Comes to Light: Environmental Racism Meets “Black Lungs Matter”
In December, news outlets ranging from the New York Times to Mother Jones magazine were touting...
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Commentary: Silence = Death. Let’s raise our voices!
As citizens of this great republic, we know that one way to ensure our voices are heard is in the...
Read MoreFlint’s Water Crisis: A Story of Racial Injustice
In Psalm 94:20, the Psalmist speaks against rulers “who make injustice legal.” Before these...
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Three Things You Can Do for Flint
A few days ago the grassroots leadership in Flint began circulating the following list of...
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Commentary: Enough is enough
The angel said, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant...
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