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Climate change requires adaptive faith
Debra Rienstra urges Christians to create spaces of transition and new growth wherever we are.
by Liuan Huska
Christ has brought the entire cosmos into submission? Frankly, it doesn’t look that way.
by Greg Carey
Given the environmental future we’re facing, we would do well to address it with resurrection hope.
The exuberant absurdity of Don’t Look Up and Moonfall
Watching the destruction of the world we were warned was coming is a staple of American entertainment.
Parenting on a planet in pain
How do I teach my children to care for an ailing world?
The Biden administration’s offshore drilling bonanza is voluntary—and dangerous
It’s time for the president’s actions on fossil fuels to match his words.
How should I pray for the climate?
I followed COP26 from a distance. Other Christians showed up in Glasgow and asked God to intervene.
by Liuan Huska
Climate change’s threat to Christianity
Faith is growing in the tropics. So are the temperatures and the tides.
Climate change is a symptom of deeper planetary dysfunction
Five ideas for treating the greater disease
A book on climate change that’s neither preachy nor hopeless
Raised on a farm, scientist Hope Jahren offers clear, concise, and credible explanations.
The artist at the end of the world
Scott Russell Sanders’s essays balance ecological despair with the promise of human creativity.
Our pandemic slowdown has been good for the planet
What if we kept it going?