Visioning Better
Climate Futures
An EcoPreacher Workshop
with Grist’s
Tory Stephens & Lisa Jurras-Buchanan
Nov. 13, 2025
1-4 p.m. Eastern
Online
$50
Climate change is reshaping our world, but before we can build solutions, we must imagine them.
Visioning Better Climate Futures was an interactive, online workshop that brought EcoPreachers together to dream boldly about sustainable, just futures — and the pathways to get there.
By using playful tools like role-playing, storytelling, and world-building, we stepped outside the limits of the present and co-created visions filled with creativity, resilience, and possibility. Along the way, we found connection and sparked new ideas.
We hoped to leave you with a renewed sense of hope for what’s possible so that you may return to the pulpit enlivened and ready to speak to a more radical future.
Ignite Imagination. Shape the future.
What Participants Experienced
- Renewed optimism & creative energy
- Exposure to today’s most promising climate solutions
- Diverse pathways for change-making to bring back to your spiritual community
- Shared insights that strengthen collective resilience
Meet Our Facilitators
Tory Stephens
Lisa Jurras-Buchanan
Meet Our Partners
“Compelling Preaching for a Climate-Changed World” is a collaborative project of Lexington Theological Seminary, The BTS Center, and Creation Justice Ministries that is made possible by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
The mission of Lexington Theological Seminary is to prepare faithful leaders for the church of Jesus Christ and, thus, to strengthen the church’s participation in God’s mission for the world. Lexington Theological Seminary seeks to be a servant of the church preparing men and women for ministry in congregations through:
- innovative instruction
- flexible curriculum
- congregational experience
- compassionate engagement with the needs of society
The Seminary offers an online program that is competency-based, congregation-centered and developmental in its commitment to prepare people for leadership in congregational ministry. As an integral part of the church, the seminary serves the church as a theological resource and as a center of continuing education for clergy and lay leaders.
Creation Justice Ministries’ mission is to educate, equip and mobilize communions and denominations, congregations, and individuals to protect, restore, and rightly share God’s creation. Creation Justice Ministries’ membership includes Baptist, Historically Black, Orthodox, Peace, and mainline Protestant traditions. With a particular concern for people who are most vulnerable and marginalized, Creation Justice Ministries provides collaborative opportunities to build ecumenical community, guides people of faith and faith communities towards eco-justice transformations, and raises a collective witness in the public arena echoing Christ’s call for just relationships among all of creation.
