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October 2026

October 12, 2026

Love Your Neighbor – Including Earth-Kin: Lev. 19, Matt. 22

God’s command to love your neighbor means acting in an ethical and loving way toward...

May 2026

May 19, 2026

Eco-Wedding Liturgy: Creation-Centered Ideas for Weddings

Want to plan a Christian eco-wedding that incorporates God's Creation as part of the liturgy?...

October 2024

October 17, 2024

“Love Your Neighbor” Includes God’s Creation

“Love your neighbor” includes God’s Creation. Honoring Creation shows love for God and for our neighbors...

May 2023

May 06, 2023

Nature Reveals the “Unknown God”: Acts 17:22-31; John 14:15-21

In Acts 17, Paul says the "unknown god" created everything. One of the best ways...

March 2023

March 19, 2023

Yearning for an Asbury Revival of a Different Kind: Creation, Faith, and Justice

The Asbury Revival may be over, but a hike on the Asbury Trails left me...

August 2022

August 02, 2022

ECO-WEDDING LITURGY: Ideas for a Creation-Centered Wedding

Looking to design an eco-wedding liturgy? Here are ideas for Creation-centered wedding vows, ring blessings,...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Justice for Creation is Justice for People: Psalm 97

Ideas for reading and preaching Psalm 97 with an eye toward environmental justice and human...

March 2022

March 07, 2022

Stars and Baby Chicks: God’s Promises in Genesis 15 and Luke 13

From the vastness of the cosmos to the tiny, vulnerable chicks, God’s promises both assure...

February 2022

February 06, 2022

A Blessed Ecosystem of Faith: Psalm 1, Jeremiah 17:5-10, Luke 6:17-26

Create an ecosystem of faith! Both the psalmist and Jeremiah urge us to root ourselves...

January 2022

January 18, 2022

God’s Creation PREACHES! Psalm 19 Links Nature and Torah

God’s Creation preaches? How can this be? We have to tune our eyes, ears, hearts,...

June 2021

June 21, 2021

Composting Our Anger and Grief: Luke 13:1-9

Jesus's parable about a gardener composting to save a fruitless tree can teach us about...

September 2020

September 01, 2020

September Mourn: Lament and Love Meet Covid19, Climate & Racism

Clinging to love and lament during this September Mourn, here are the words I want...

August 2020

August 02, 2020

The Butterfly Effect – Harnessing the Wind of Tiny Wings

God is harnessing the wind of our tiny wings. We are part of a “butterfly effect”...

July 2020

July 20, 2020

Finding Eden’s Forests in the Midst of COVID19

The forests of Kentucky offer my children and me a refuge of safety, beauty, and...

May 2020

May 16, 2020

Green Ramadan, Green Muslims: Spotlight on Huda Alkaff

Ever heard of Green Ramadan? How about Green Muslims? Meet Huda Alkaff, a champion for...

April 2020

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 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...

February 2020

February 29, 2020

Birds, Church, and Climate Change: Spotlight on Corina Newsome

Meet Corina Newsome, a black, millennial, Evangelical, zoologist/biologist whose work focuses on connecting faith, science,...

February 20, 2020

Creation-centered Spiritual Practices Focus Our Lenten Journey

For the Beauty of the Earth: A Lenten Devotional has spiritual practices that help us...

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...

December 2019

December 15, 2019

Flowers Preaching in the Desert – Isaiah 35:1-10

Isaiah 35 describes hope like a tiny purple crocus reaching out of the snow with...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

From Eco-Crucifixion to Eco-Resurrection

Lexington Theological Seminary is now a Green Chalice seminary. We're striving to be part of...

July 2018

July 26, 2018

Forest Therapy: Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 8

Have you heard of 'forest therapy? Developed in Japan, the practice of walking in the...

July 18, 2018

The Secret Speech of Trees: Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 7

In this week’s devotional, “The Secret Speech of Trees,” we learn that trees can communicate...

July 05, 2018

Preaching Trees: Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 5

In this week's devotional , 'Preaching Trees,' we learn that the trees are, in a...

June 2018

June 27, 2018

Trees as Ancestors: Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 4

Cherokee teach their children that trees contain the spirit of the ancestors. Who taught you...

June 20, 2018

The Sacredness of Trees: Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 3

Most of us spend far more time sitting in the glow of a screen than...

June 13, 2018

The Gift of Trees – Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith, Wk. 2

This week's devotional focuses on the gift of trees. Matthew Sleeth provides a meaningful reflection...

June 12, 2018

Cedar Trees and Mustard Seeds – The Bible’s Arboretum

Let's take a walk through the arboretum of the Bible. From cedar trees to mustard...

June 09, 2018

Healthy Trees, Healthy People, Healthy Faith – Devotional, Wk. 1

This 8-week interfaith devotional has been designed to encourage and uplift you as you connect...