A Seed of Grief and Hope: John 12:20-33
Jesus’s teaching about a seed dying in order to bear fruit can find deep resonance with Indigenous wisdom.
God’s Rainbow is a Symbol for Peace with Creation
A rainbow is more than just prism-droplets of light and color. It’s an eternal symbol of God’s desire for peace with Creation and humanity.
Baptismal Water, Light, and Spirit: Sources of Our Ecological Vocation
Baptismal water, light, and Spirit call us into our vocation as Christians to protect God’s Creation.
Repairing and Restoring Earth in Advent: Isaiah 61 and John 1
God gives us a vision of Jubilee-restoration so that we can repair and rebuild both human communities and Earth’s ecosystems that have suffered from oppression and captivity.
Giving Thanks for God’s Creation: Deuteronomy 8; Luke 17
Giving thanks for God’s Creation is one way to live out our gratitude and reorient our hearts toward service and sustainability.
Love Your Neighbor – Including Our Earth-kin: Lev. 19, Matt. 22
God’s command to love your neighbor extends to our neighbors in Creation, including the land, waters, trees, animals, and human kin.
Workers in the Vineyard and the Economy of Exploitation: Matthew 20:1-16
Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard holds a mirror up to the harsh realities of exploitative economic and agricultural systems so that we might imagine a world that nurtures both land and people.
Gleaning Divine Abundance: Isaiah 55:1-5; Matthew 14:13-21
God invites us to participate in gleaning divine abundance from the Earth so that all are nutritiously fed with equity and joyous fellowship.
A Divine Cycle of Reciprocity: Preaching the Parable of the Sower
God invites us into a divine cycle of reciprocity so that Creation, communities, and the church can flourish.