Environment Archives

Stellar preaching and insightful Bible study open Presbyterians for Earth Care conference

Posted September 21st, 2023

Presbyterians for Earth Care began its four-day “The Climate Crisis & Empowering Hope” hybrid conference Wednesday with worship, where the Rev. Dr. Diane Givens Moffett, president and executive director of the Presbyterian Mission Agency, used Psalm 46:1-7 to preach on “Consider Our Hope.”

Presbyterians for Earth Care offers up a webinar on sustainable transportation

Posted September 1st, 2023

Scott Minos, who heads up the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Saver initiative and works in DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, made the case during a Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar last week that sustainable transportation is an important way to care for the planet.

Intergenerational Creation care, solar eclipse event planned for Presbyterians in 2024

Posted August 18th, 2023

The Office of Christian Formation of the Presbyterian Mission Agency is partnering with Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, to offer a four-day, three-night intergenerational Creation care event from April 6-9, 2024, culminating with a total solar eclipse.

A climate scientist makes a clear case for climate change during a Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar

Posted August 8th, 2023

Around 180 people registered for last week’s Presbyterians for Earth Care webinar “The Climate Crisis: Where are we in 2023?” Dr. Colin Evans, a post-doctoral research associate at the Northeast Regional Climate Change Center at Cornell University, spoke and answered questions afterward. Watch the webinar, hosted the Rev. Bruce Gillette, Moderator of PEC, by going here.

New York Avenue Presbyterian Church hosts a talk on moral injury and climate change

Posted July 13th, 2023

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, an acclaimed author and theologian and a senior vice president and director of the Shay Moral Injury Center at Volunteers of America, is serving this summer as the McClendon Scholar-in-Residence at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. On Wednesday, she gave an online lecture, “Moral Injury and Climate Change: Reclaiming Our Love for This Earth.”

Ways churches can respond to extreme heat and climate change

Posted July 7th, 2023

With climate change and other factors contributing to scorching conditions in various parts of the world, Creation Justice Ministries hosted a recent webinar to help churches spring into action, from becoming cooling centers to advocating for environmentally friendly legislation.

Presbyterians are seeing good results planting native species on their sacred grounds

Posted May 16th, 2023

Presbyterians and other people of faith are becoming more intentional about planting their church grounds with the thriving of God’s creatures in mind, and a webinar offered last week by Presbyterians for Earth Care explained how and where that’s happening.

Presbyterian pastor, Menaul School students help unearth a treasure ahead of Earth Day

Posted April 21st, 2023

In honor of Earth Day, this week I had the opportunity to take out 70 students and faculty from Menaul High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a guided hike and day of service on the Caja del Rio, one of the most significant cultural, historical, archaeological, spiritual and wildlife landscapes in the American Southwest.

Church in Puerto Rico embraces Earth-friendly practices

Posted April 18th, 2023

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) now has its first Earth Care Congregation in Puerto Rico.

Presbyterians for Earth Care receives one scientist’s look at the most recent climate assessment

Posted April 12th, 2023

Dr. C. Mark Eakin, a retired oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told about 75 people attending a webinar Tuesday that a recent climate assessment contains both bad news and good ideas for what Presbyterians and others can do to help restore Creation.