Our climate-changed world is crying out for bold, prophetic moral leadership.

Preachers: you have the opportunity and responsibility to offer spiritual guidance in the face of our need for social and ecological healing and wholeness.

Upcoming

Registration is open: EcoPreacher Cohort 2026-2027

Find out more about this year-long community of learning with clergy peers from around the world, gifted preachers, skill-building, and intentional small groups.

Research & Resources

Unprepared for Eco-Grief: Study Shows Spiritual Infrasturcture Gap in U.S. Mailine Protestant Churches

Yes, and: Expanding the Ways That American Protestant Congregations Respond to a Climate-Changed World

EcoPreacher Resource Library

Articles, books, blogs, videos, sermons, and more

What is the EcoPreacher Initiative?

The EcoPreacher Initiative equips and encourages preaching that is rooted in Scripture and theology — that gets at the heart of what it means to live faithfully in a climate-changed world. We’re creating experiences, communities, and resources, and conducting research to help you hone the craft of preaching in the context of a changing world and church.

The EcoPreacher Initiative is a multi-institutional initiative by Lexington Theological Seminary, The BTS Center, and Creation Justice Ministries. It is funded by Lilly Endowment Inc.’s Compelling Preaching Initiative.

Our Core Programs

In addition to events and research findings, the EcoPreacher Initiative offers two annual learning communities. Some participants opt to undertake one followed by the other. Some choose to partake in both simultaneously.

The EcoPreacher Cohort

A cohort-based program of learning, companionship, and exploration that consists of consisting of guest speakers, Kinship Circles, and general themes for preaching about environmental and climate change issues. September – June

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Sermon Coaching Groups

A monthly online gathering of preachers consisting of small groups sharing their eco-sermons for personalized feedback guided by a trained homiletician. January – June

Workshop Series

The EcoPreacher Initiative is honored to host biannual workshops featuring gifted and prophetic preachers. Many of these workshops are recorded and available for you to hear below.

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Past Programs

Intentions of the EcoPreacher Initiative

EcoPreacher Leadership

The EcoPreacher Initiative is fortunate to have gifted, committed leaders renowned not only for their homiletic gifts, but also for their abilities to facilitate, teach, conduct research, collaborate, and inspire.