Consider a recent conversation engaged in by some New York Times cognoscenti about the significance of the life and witness of Pope Francis.* They managed to fill almost a whole news page without even mentioning his greatest contribution! Among manyRead More →
When I published my first book in ecotheology in 1970, Brother Earth, I was one of a very few theologians who were interested in this field. Things have changed, dramatically. More than fifty years later, hundreds of ecotheology works haveRead More →
For some time, I have considered ours to be the golden age of ecological theology and Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si’, to be perhaps the best single expression of this golden age. I have also long respected the contributionsRead More →
In recent months, I have been unashamedly talking about my new book, EcoActivist Testament: Explorations of Faith and Nature for Fellow Travelers (Cascade), with anyone who might be willing to listen. I have particularly sought out younger friends and coworkers,Read More →
When you were sitting through your last graduation ceremony, your own or a child’s, say, as you were dutifully trying to listen to the commencement speaker, did your mind ever wander? Of course it did. More particularly, did youRead More →
I began talking publicly about caring for creation in my first book, Brother Earth (1970). As the ecotheology movement grew in succeeding decades, that construct, which was never just mine by any means, found a place in the then growing discussionsRead More →