More videos on Christianity and Ecology

In this interview, Robert Ellsberg and Diarmuid O’Murchu discuss “Ecological Spirituality (Ecology & Justice Series).” The changes that we must make to address the complex ecological crises today are unlikely to happen if we do not experience a spiritual revolution. In Ecological Spirituality, Diarmuid O’Murchu invites readers to the revolutionary work of a life-promoting spirituality for our time. He explores how we must move beyond understandings of holiness that emphasize detachment from our world in favor of something beyond. In his welcoming style O’Murchu reintroduces readers to the long history of humanity’s relationship with the creative Spirit of God, including and transcending religious traditions in a growing horizon of faith. As we rediscover the sacred here on Earth, we are called to connect spirit with Spirit, discerning and living an ecologically-focused spirituality for the well-being of creatures and ecosystems around the planet.

This week’s episode of Spotlights features Madeline Stevens, a graduate student in the Environmental Studies program at the University of Montana. She talks about the interdisciplinary work being done in her program as well as her personal and professional engagement with the intersection of religion and the environment, including the thesis she is completing on the relationship between faith and environmental education. We talk about the relationship between science and religion, Evangelical Christianity, curriculum development, personal transformation, and more. Posted 02/21/2022.

Meet Miguel A. De La Torre, author of Gonna Trouble the Water | Ecojustice, Water, and Environmental Racism. Gonna Trouble the Water considers the sacred nature of water and the ways in which it is weaponized against non-white communities. Firmly grounded at the intersection of environmentalism and racism, Gonna Trouble the Water makes clear the message: to deny water is to deny life. Follow the link to view this event on Facebook.

This week's episode of the Forum on Religion and Ecology podcast features Robin Globus Veldman, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Texas A&M University, and an Associate Editor for the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. She discusses her work at the intersection of religion, culture, and climate change, including the research that went into her book, The Gospel of Climate Skepticism: Why Evangelical Christians Oppose Action on Climate Change (UC Press, 2019). This is the first part of a two-part interview. You can find more information about her work here: https://robingveldman.wixsite.com/mysite​ More information about her book is available on the publisher's website: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/97805203… This episode was posted 05/10/2021. 

Georgia Interfaith Power and Light presented a three-part series starting in April 2021.  Environmental Justice (EJ) is the idea that all people and communities have the right to equal environmental protection under the law, and the right to live and work in communities that are safe and healthy.  The sessions will provide an introduction to EJ as well as address Georgia-specific EJ issues. This first session, Environmental Justice 101, was facilitated by Hannah Shultz, GIPL's Program Associate.

As program coordinator of the Environmental Justice Project of Catholic Charities, Diocese of Stockton, Jonathan Pruitt discusses the project’s work to bring environmental justice to the Northern Central Valley of California. He presents a history of the environmental injustices perpetrated in Stockton, as well as an overview of the Project’s legislative/policy wins, achieved over the years through local Catholic organizing for climate equity.

This webcast features a conversation with Rev. Michael Malcom, MDiv MBA, Founder & Executive Director, The People’s Justice Council and Lindsay Harper, National Core Support Team Coordinator, Arm in Arm. People of faith are called to do justice in the world. It is our moral responsibility to care for our neighbors and all of Creation. We must listen to and amplify the voices of those impacted by the systemic inequities that directly impacts some while indirectly impacting us all. Join in this call to action and how to engage your congregation and others in building climate equity for all.

In this episode we talk to Matt Ryan, an urban farmer in Chicago who makes it his mission to educate the community about the social and environmental justice dynamics of growing food. The conversation includes crucial topics such as the intimacy of a farmer’s relationship to the land; the sustainability of small-scale farming; urban and backyard farming; the global food supply chain; and winter gardening.

In this episode Tahmina Martelly of World Relief explains the connections between social and environmental justice, and how they play out in her work with immigrants and refugees. As a community developer, she prioritizes the voices of the poor and marginalized, and collaborates with them to create solutions to food deserts, the absence of greenspaces, and the challenges of being landless. The community garden that they have built together has become a center for multicultural community, where people celebrate ethnic, cultural, economic, and religious diversity. Tahmina also addresses resistance among some religious folks to matters of global warming and climate change, and challenges us to think about the sort of grace it takes to model a different approach to creation care.

A short introduction to Au Sable Institute and the Biblical mandate to care for God's good earth.

Christian and climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bill about ending the gridlock between politics, science and faith.

Heather Eaton discusses Christianity and Ecology with Mary Evelyn Tucker. “Christianity and Ecology” is part of the larger “Conversations on World Religions and Ecology” project. Watch the whole “Conversations on World Religions and Ecology” series on the Forum on Religion and Ecology YouTube Channel.