in 2018 more than 17 million climate migrants — those displaced by the effects of climate change (i.e. crop failure, water stress, sea level rise), left their homes permanently. As California’s wildfires led a writer and his family to escape their smoke-filled neighborhood, he reflects on what the Bible says about these refugees. From Sojourners. […]
The environmental crisis threatens the existence of the human race. So why aren’t churches speaking out about climate change and pollution? “Our apathy and indifference to our earth exposes a gap in our discipleship,” writes Terrence M. McKinley in an insightful essay in Sojourners.
Over the past two decades, many Christians have made a dramatic public conversion to environmental causes as the evidence for climate change and other problems has become more apparent. But recent evidence suggests interest in creation care is leveling off or even declining. On Sojourners. (Photo: Takver, Creative Commons)
“Depression lies to me. It is relentless. It tells me I will always feel this way, that I’m not deserving of help, that I am a burden, a waste — that my life is thoroughly hopeless,” Pastor Jason Chestnut writes in Sojourners. Ministry is hard, and the stresses clergy face can lead may people to […]
So far as I know, the Bible says nothing explicit about subprime loans and the financial implications of such risky economic practice. There is a great deal, nonetheless, that the Bible has to say about such a crisis as we now face. I will comment in turn on a biblical perspective of an analysis of the crisis and a biblical perspective for an alternative economic practice. [Written in 2009, this prophetic article in Sojourners still speaks to our time.] (Photo by Glenn Thomas Hvidsten, used by Creative Commons license.)
It’s that time of the year again, when we stand on the precipice of a new year and look forward to what is in store for us in 2015. Given the events of 2014, the church now also has a monumental opportunity to provide healing, justice, care, and compassion in new and exciting ways — ways I believe are important for the church in the upcoming year. Read them all, inSojourners, and see which fit your context. (Photo by Courtney Dirks , used by Creative Commons license)
As the country marks Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, a veteran activist explains why it would be a mistake to remember King as only a great civil rights leader. In his final years, he began to move toward an ever-more-profound and radical understanding of what would be required to deal with the nation’s domestic and […]
“The State of Church Giving through 2012: What are Christian Seminaries and Intellectuals Thinking – or Are They?” issued by Empty Tomb, an Illinois-based nonprofit that tracks church giving, suggests a different kind of pastor is needed to address giving in an age of affluence. Despite increased stewardship education in seminaries, the situation is complex and requires […]
Christians love to blame social justice issues on large corporations, rich banks, corrupt governments, and our culture’s greedy obsession with money. But Westernized Christianity has quietly created an aristocratic population of its own, a “gated community” that only the most privileged and wealthy can afford to experience. (Photo (c) Dion Hinchcliffe, used by Creative Commons […]
Even with our technological advances, community is still needed and of great value. On Holy Trinity Sunday, why not consider how our Triune God models life together? (Photo by jdbradley used under Creative Commons License. Thanks!)
