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Jon Terry and Liuan Huska on Liturgies of Restoration

Au Sable Institute developed its Liturgies of Restoration workbook to help university students in summer field science courses connect Christian worship and creation care. Now small groups and churches are using the workbook to cultivate habits of worship, community, earthkeeping, purposeful stewardship, and hope.

Conversation | January 05, 2022

Guillermo Márquez-Sterling on Youth and Unique Mission Trip

Guillermo Márquez-Sterling is associate pastor at Coral Gables United Church of Christ in Coral Gables, Florida. In this edited conversation, Márquez-Sterling talks about their MTR mission trip in June 2013.

Conversation | October 10, 2013

Green Congregations Advocate for People Affected by Environmental Problems

As creation care takes hold in a congregation’s building, worship and church life, God often nudges the church to a tipping point. Members begin advocating for those most affected by environmental problems.

Feature Story | October 10, 2013

Green Congregations Become Centers of Creation Care and Renewal

As more churches include creation care in congregational life, all ages experience hope and joy. They start to see how God has gifted their church with specific callings and resources to protect the earth so that all may flourish.

Feature Story | October 09, 2013

Worship in the Season of Creation and Earth-Themed Sundays

Green congregations around the world celebrate the Season of Creation, emphasize earth keeping throughout the Christian Year and plan other earth-themed Sundays.

Feature Story | September 12, 2013

Green Congregations Celebrate God’s New Creation in Worship

Christians often remind each other that worship is more about God’s beauty and glory than about us.

Feature Story | September 12, 2013

Bob Waldrop on How Earth Care Led Him to God

In this edited conversation, based on emails and an April 2013 phone conversation, Bob Waldorp explains how his church work and activism fit together.

Conversation | July 11, 2013

Kristi Holmberg on Hope for Healing the Earth

Like many young adults, Kristi Holmberg is keenly aware of inheriting an earth damaged by previous generations. However, rather than despair or turn cynical, she began during college to connect with Christians who are working toward a just and sustainable future.

Conversation | June 10, 2013

Green Congregations Promote Sustainability

Whether your church goes solar, diverts money from utilities to missions or plants a community garden, you can find creative and sustainable ways to model that the earth is the Lord’s.

Feature Story | May 28, 2013

What I Wish My Pastor Knew About: Sustainability and the Environment - from Ministry Theorem

Climate Change, Sustainability, and our Future: Explore changes on the earth and what they may mean.

Article | March 14, 2011