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April 2025

April 21, 2025

Legacy of Pope Francis Galvanizes Environmental Movement

The poetic timing of the death of Pope Francis between Easter and Earth Day is...

April 14, 2025

Ministering through Climate Grief: An Earth Day Reflection

If Earth Day 2025 feels sad and ominous to you, you're not alone. Here’s how...

April 03, 2024

Plastic Jesus, Earth Day: Calling for a Plastic-Free Future

Plastic Jesus is everywhere, just like plastic itself. For Earth Day, churches can call for...

March 2024

March 07, 2024

A Seed of Grief and Hope: Preaching Ideas for John 12:20-33

Jesus’s teaching in John 12:20-33 about a seed dying in order to bear fruit can...

April 2023

April 09, 2023

Touching the Wounds of Our Planet: Thomas and Our Eco-Spiritual Crisis

Just as Jesus appeared to Thomas, the risen Christ come to us as we are...

April 26, 2020

10 Tips for Keeping Your Earth Day Resolutions

Earth Day Resolutions are a lot like New Year’s Resolutions – if you don’t put...

April 22, 2020

We Need Climate Education in Schools: A High School Student Speaks Out

Climate education is a must for students facing an unprecedented challenge. Here is one student's...

April 20, 2020

10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day at Home

In the time of the coronavirus pandemic, here 10 ways to commemorate the 50th Anniversary...

April 01, 2020

When Earth Demands Sabbath: Learning from the Coronavirus Pandemic

It is uncanny that on this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Earth is finally getting...

January 2020

January 21, 2020

Creation-centered Lenten Devotional: For the Beauty of the Earth

Are you looking for a Creation-centered Lenten devotional? For the Beauty of the Earth helps your...

April 2019

April 05, 2019

Turning Earth into Golgotha – We Need an Eco-Resurrection

Jesus was executed at Golgotha – the trash dump outside the city of Jerusalem. Today, we...

April 25, 2018

Beyond Earth Day: 10 Ideas for Environmental Advocacy and Activism in Your Church

You’ve held an Earth Day service at your church to honor and celebrate God's Creation....

April 18, 2018

Eco-Poetry for Earth Day

How serendipitous that Earth Month and National Poetry Month occupy April together. Here are some...

April 14, 2018

A Dozen Bible Passages for Preaching a Creation-Care Sermon

You’d like to preach a sermon about caring for God’s Creation in your congregation. But...

March 2018

March 28, 2018

Three Workshops – Earth, Water, Air: Seeking an Eco-Resurrection

Three Workshops - Earth, Water, Air: Seeking an Eco-Resurrection DISCOVER a new perspective for engaging...

March 24, 2018

Resurrection Sermon for an Earth-kin Congregation

This Resurrection sermon, originally preached at R.B. Winter State Park in Pennsylvania, in the outdoor...

September 2017

September 20, 2017

Hymn: ‘Earth and All Kin’

A hymn for St. Francis Sunday, Blessing of the Animals, Earth Day, or any Sunday!...

May 2017

May 28, 2017

Rebuilding the Temple . . . of Earth: EcoPreacher Guest Sermon

Ronda Sloan is a lay preacher and elder in the Disciples of Christ Christian Church...

May 24, 2017

Jonah, Ninevites, and Climate Change: EcoPreacher Guest Sermon

Carol Devine is the second-place winner of the 2017 EcoPreacher Earth Day Sermon Contest. Her...

May 21, 2017

EcoPreacher Earth Day Sermon Contest Winner: Brooke Baker

Congratulations to Brooke Baker, winner of the 2017 EcoPreacher Earth Day Sermon Contest!

May 07, 2017

When Psalm 23 Shepherded Me

Psalm 23, when we learn it by heart, can be the very presence of God...

April 2017

April 29, 2017

Why Changing Light Bulbs May Be Hurting the Climate Movement

Ecological works righteousness is undermining our cause. What Martin Luther, the abolitionist movement, and science...

April 23, 2017

Is Earth Worth Dying For? A Reflection on the Earth Martyrs

The faithfulness of the Earth Martyrs shows us that because Earth is worth dying for,...

April 20, 2017

Six Children’s Sermon Ideas for Earth Day

Earth Day is coming up and you need a children’s sermon for the worship service....

April 18, 2017

Falling Off the Bike: A Sermon for Earth Day

For this Earth Day sermon, an 11-year-old's ill-fated bike ride offers valuable lessons for this...

April 18, 2017

Why I’m Not Just Preaching About Earth on Earth Day

When I was a pastor I would place a pot of soil, a watering can,...

April 13, 2017

5 A’s for Earth Day: Practices of Compassion and Resistance

As we approach Earth Day, the stakes for our planet have never been higher. Here...

April 07, 2017

17 Ways to be an EcoPreacher and Help Heal Our Planet

Imagine what your life would be like if you could be an EcoPreacher taking part...