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Learning to say grace: The theology and politics of eating

January 3, 2019
By Norman Wirzba
ABC Religion and Ethics

“What’s for dinner?”

An interfaith group finds willing partners to restore a shared watershed

January 1, 2019
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service Environment
National Catholic Reporter

On a chilly fall day several weeks ago, volunteers from five Maryland congregations came together in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore to plant 90 trees.

The planting was unique for two reasons: It drew a team of Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians and Conservative...

Our ladies of perpetual activism: Nuns for social justice

These sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

By Liz Brazile, YES! Magazine
Nation of Change
December 27, 2018

Whether focusing on fossil fuels, social justice, or lobbying major corporations to be better stewards of the environment, these sisters believe that their faith calls them to create a more just world.

Irish prelate channels pope's environmental message on Christmas

December 25, 2018
By Christopher White
Crux

NEW YORK - On a night when Catholics are asked to reflect on the mystery of God becoming man, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh said that Christmas is an occasion to “marvel at the wonder of the universe,” from the unborn child to the vastness of creation.

Indigenous peoples denounce ongoing land rights violations in Ecuador

December 17, 2018
By Genevieve Belmaker
Mongabay

New Environmental Ethics: 20 Years of The Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology


As the F&ES-based Forum on Religion and Ecology celebrates 20 years, we sit down with co-founder Mary Evelyn Tucker, who describes the growing global awareness of the relationship between the world’s religious and spiritual traditions and it can help humankind solve its environmental challenges.

By Allegra Lovejoy Wiprud
Yale School of Forestry &...

Old mines cast a long shadow on their surroundings

University of Eastern Finland
Press release
December 17, 2018

Local stakeholders need more information than is currently available to them on the impacts of former mining activities on ground water and surface water, potential soil contamination, and the safety of natural products, a new study from Finland shows. The majority of the respondents generally regarded post-mining...

What Does Theology Say About Ecology?

Yale Quadcast
December 2018

Yale Divinity School Professor Willie Jennings discusses Christian stewardship of the environment, conscious meat consumption, and the intersection of racial and environmental justice.

Listen to this podcast here.

COP24: It's not about resources anymore; it's about moral maturity

December 13, 2018
By Joan Chittister
National Catholic Reporter

This article appears in the COP24 Poland feature series. View the full series.

I just came back from the...

How Native American tribes are bringing back the bison from brink of extinction

December 12, 2018
By Jeremy Hance
The Guardian

The continent’s largest land mammal plays crucial role in spiritual lives of the tribes

On 5,000 hectares of unploughed prairie in north-eastern Montana, hundreds of wild bison roam once again. But this herd is not in a national park or a protected sanctuary – they are on tribal lands. Belonging to the Assiniboine...

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