In October of 2024, Rev. Alison Cornish spoke to reporters at Western Mass News to discuss her work coordinating The BTS Center’s Climate Conscious Chaplaincy Initiative.

“They’re bringing some really heavy questions about their future. What does it look like? What are they inheriting in terms of how the world has become with climate,” Reverend Allison Cornish, the chaplaincy initiative coordinator for the BTS Center told us.

The BTS Center is a private foundation in Portland, Maine that looks at climate grief and the resulting anxiety through a spiritual lens.

“What we’re finding is, no matter where someone is serving as a chaplain, it could be in a university, it could be in hospice, it could be in the prison system, they’re doing that work in a climate changed world,” Cornish said. “So, it means that there are different questions and different situations and different contexts that are arising that chaplains have to deal with.”

You can watch the segment and read the article on the Western Mass news website.