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Research by The BTS Center
All That Is Within Us: The Unique Role of Churches in a Climate-Changed World by Benjamin Yosua-Davis
Public Report (2026)
Executive Summary (2026)
Yes, And: Expanding the Ways that American Protestant Congregations Respond to a Climate Changed World by Benjamin Yosua-Davis, Amanda Wilson Harper, and Leah D. Schade (Religions, 2025)
Cultivating Earth-Shaped Leaders: Ecological Imagination in Organizations by Benjamin Yosua-Davis (Humanistic Management Journal, 2025)
Executive Summary (2023)
Full Report (2023)
Pathways Into Ecological Teaching Engagement (by Benjamin Yosua-Davis, Leah D. Schade, and Marquisha Lawrence Scott (Religious Education Association Journal, 2025)
“Cultivating Earth-Shaped Leadership”
Research by the EcoPreacher Initiative
An initiative of The BTS Center, Creation Justice Ministries, and Lexington Theological Seminary
Yes, And: Expanding the Ways that American Protestant Congregations Respond to a Climate Changed World (Religions)
EcoPreacher (Patheos) a column by Rev. Dr. Leah Schade
From our research ecosystem
Collaborators, advisors, and friends of The BTS Center
Dr. Rebecca Kneale Gould
• Gould, Rebecca Kneale. At Home in Nature: Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America. University of California Press, 2005.
• Gould, Rebecca K, and Phil Walker. “The Fire Inside.” The Fire Inside, 23 Sept. 2016, fireinsidefilm.com/.
Dr. Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi
• “Beyond the Congregation: Theological Education in a Changing Vocational Landscape.” Written by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi. Review of Religious Research (p.1-24), 2026.
• Emerging Trends in Congregational Engagement and Leadership. Edited by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi. Religions Special Issue Reprint. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI Books, 2025.
• “The Root Work of Formation.” Written by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi. The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 6(1):18-31, 2025.
• “Religious (and Spiritual) Leadership.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Organizational Change (p. 1-11), written by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi. Edited by Satinder Dhiman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026.
• “Community Organizing: Grassroots Organizing and Democratic Leadership.” The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Leadership and Organizational Change (p.1-7), written by Kristina I. Lizardy-Hajbi. Edited by Satinder Dhiman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Dr. Susanne Moser
• The emotional toll of climate change on science professionals, Gilford, D., S. Moser, B. DePodwin, R. Moulton, and S. Watson, Eos, 100, 2019.
• How to Cope—and Even Hope—in an Age of Apparent Doom: An Interview with Susanne Moser by P.J. Molton, Building Green.
• Despairing about climate change? An Interview with Susi Moser. Earth Island Journal, July 22, 2019. Reprinted in DumboFeather.com, Australia, vol61(4), November 2019.
• The Adaptive Mind: Understanding and Building the Capacity to Deal with Constant, Traumatic and Transformative Change Project Summary. Moser, Susanne (P.I.), Aspen Global Change Institute.
• Not for the faint of heart: Tasks of climate change communication in the context of societal transformation. In: Climate and Culture: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of Knowing, Being and Doing in a Climate Change World, Moser, S.C. Edited by G. Feola, H. Geoghegan, and A. Arnall (p.141-167). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Evanne Novak
• Nowak, Evanne. “Attuning to Loss: Contemplative Ecology and the Practice of Mourning Damaged Landscapes in the Veluwe.” MDPI, MDPI, 22 June 2026, www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/17/6/744.
• Novak, Evanne. “Spiritual Care as a Contemplative Ecological Practice.” Wisdom Traditions in Spiritual Care: Integrative Explorations on Normativity, Wipf & Stock, Eugene, OR, 2026.