Additional Resources
This page shows all of the resources provided by everyone participating in the EcoPreacher Cohort 2022-2023. Please feel free to share any related article, video, poem, book, etc.
To submit a resource, please send an email to madeline@thebtscenter.org.
Resources
Engage with the EcoPreacher 1-2-3 resources being offered through the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development:
Click below to learn more and listen to The BTS Center's new podcast, Climate Changed, which offers intimate interviews and conversations around some of the most pressing questions about faith, life, and climate change.
Click below to learn more about The Leadership Commons, which is a space where we are developing new content, and gathering materials adapted from past programs, to help equip faith leaders in the work of guiding communities of spiritual practice through the uncertainties of life on a changing planet. These resources are available for you to use with your community.
"Eco Preacher Workshop with Rev. Dr. Leah Schade and special guest Rabbi Yonatan Neril" recorded in May 2022
Submitted by Creation Justice Ministries
Resources from Rev. Dr. Leah Schade
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Are you wondering how to preach a sermon about climate change that connects with Scripture and your congregation? This piece by Rev. Dr. Leah Schade contains a sermon outline that you can adapt to your context using different biblical passages. A sample sermon is included that breaks down the anatomy of the sequence so that you can see the outline in action.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/ecopreacher/2022/11/how-to-preach-a-sermon-about-climate-change-and-your-congregation/ - Believers, Sympathizers, and Skeptics: Why Americans are Conflicted about Climate Change, Environmental Policy, and Science
Daniel Cox, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Robert P. Jones, Ph.D., 11.21.2014
https://www.prri.org/research/believers-sympathizers-skeptics-americans-conflicted-climate-change-environmental-policy-science/ - Norman C. Habel, "Guiding Ecojustice Principles," in Readings from the Perspective of Earth, ed. Norman C. Habel, The Earth Bible (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2000)
https://www.amazon.com/Readings-Perspective-Earth-Bible-Sheffield/dp/1841270849/ - Eco Bible, Volumes 1 and 2, by Rabbi Yonatan Neril and Rabbi Leo Dee: https://interfaithsustain.com/ecobible/
Web Sites/Organizations
- ecoAmerica: https://ecoamerica.org/
- Research on climate and public sentiment: https://ecoamerica.org/research/
- Blessed Tomorrow: https://blessedtomorrow.org/
- Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development: https://interfaithsustain.com/
- Greenfaith: https://greenfaith.org/
- Interfaith Power & Light: https://www.interfaithpowerandlight.org/
- Lutherans Restoring Creation: https://lutheransrestoringcreation.org/
- Preaching resources: https://lutheransrestoringcreation.org/worship/preaching-resources/
Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously Through Troubled Times by Kate Davies (book)
Whether working directly on ecological or social issues or worried about children and grandchildren, this book is for everyone concerned about the future and looking for a deeper source of hope for a better world.
Submitted by Bob Ullman
TED Talk with Katherine Hayhoe
In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to prompt people to realize that they already care about a changing climate.
Submitted by Bob Ullman
- Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer
- Watershed Discipleship, edited by Ched Myers
- A Watershed Resource: Congregational Watershed Discipleship Manual: Faith Communities as Stewards of the World's Waters
- Free download from Vermont Interfaith Power and Light on Watershed https://vtipl.org/556-2/
Musical Resources:
1.) Mark Miller (hymn-writer, musician)
https://ism.yale.edu/people/
https://songselect.ccli.com/
2.) All Creations Sings (published by The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
https://www.augsburgfortress.
3.) The New Century Hymnal
https://hymnary.org/hymnal/
https://www.thepilgrimpress.
4.) For the Beauty of the Earth Arrangement (Chuck Bell)
https://chuck-bell-music.
5.) Carolyn Winfrey Gillette Hymns
https://www.carolynshymns.com/
6.) Porter's Gate (an album of songs for creation)
https://youtube.com/playlist?
7.) Jake Blount’s “The New Faith”
https://jakeblount.com/the-
8.) Convergence Music Project
https://convergencemp.com/
9.) “For Everyone Born” Glory to God #769
https://hymnary.org/hymn/
10.) Holy Disorder of Dancing Monks, Abbey of the Arts, Christine Valters Paintner
https://abbeyofthearts.com/
Books and Other Resources:
1.) Katherine Hayhoe’s “Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World”
https://www.barnesandnoble.
2.) Harper Collin’s “The Green Bible”
https://harperone.com/
3.) “In Deep Waters: Spiritual Care for Young People in a Climate Crisis” by Talitha Amadea Aho
https://www.fortresspress.com/
4.) "The Planet You Inherit" by Larry Ramussen
https://www.barnesandnoble.
5.) Rev. Mariam White-Hammond
- Podcast with the BTS Center
https://thebtscenter.org/climate-changed/podcast- season-one-episode-1/ - Professional Website
https://www.revmariama.net/
6.) Resources on spiritual formation and spiritual practice in creation from The Center for Spirituality in Nature.
www.spiritualityinnature.org
