This past spring, climate journalist Shreya Agrawal spent time with Rev. Alison Cornish, The BTS Center’s Chaplaincy Initiative Coordinator, to learn about how we are approaching our Climate Conscious Chaplaincy Initiative. That piece, which spotlights the work of several peer organizations, including Sewanee and the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, was published recently in an article in the online version of Sojourners, called “What Is an Eco-Chaplain?” by Shreya Agrawal.

“A climate-conscious chaplain might sit with a family who has lost their home to a flood or a fire, so that is disaster spiritual care,” [Rev. Alison Cornish] said. “But grief leads to something. It might mean an activist stance, it might lead to writing, it might lead to developing a ritual or ceremony, it might lead to righteous anger. That’s something that a climate-conscious chaplain might do.”

Read the article on the Sojourners website.