Sharon Delgado
Pastor, Author, Activist
The revised edition of Sharon’s acclaimed book, Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice, was released on January 13th and is available now. To schedule a time for her to speak to your group or to request a sample chapter or discounts on bulk copies, Contact Sharon. See some presentation topics here.
Sharon Delgado is an ordained United Methodist pastor, nonviolent activist, and public theologian.
Sharon is Convener of Fossil Free UMC, which advocates for the United Methodist Church to divest from fossil fuels. She is on the Coordinating Committee of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, which works across the denomination to coordinate actions related to creation justice. She preaches, speaks at conferences, leads workshops, and writes on environmental and climate justice, economic globalization, and peacemaking, while pointing toward faithful action for a transformed world. Sharon names the invisible powers that influence human behavior and that are embodied in today’s domination system, and points in the direction of both personal and social transformation. Learn more →
January 2026
An updated Second Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change (Fortress Press 2017) will be released in the spring of 2025. The book is an expansive Wesleyan approach to climate change that takes climate science seriously. It explores the themes of love and justice in the context of climate change and uses scripture, tradition, reason, and experience to explore the issue.
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2022
The Cross in the Midst of Creation: Following Jesus, Engaging the Powers, Transforming the World, asserts that the crucifixion is ongoing as institutional powers diminish human life and destroy creation, and that the resurrection is ongoing as faith overcomes despair and the Spirit equips people to follow Jesus in the struggle for a transformed world.
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2020
Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition (Fortress Press, 2007, 2020) critiques the global economy and its effects from the perspective of an integrated theology of “the earth as primary revelation” and the institutional “powers and principalities” of this world.
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Recent Posts
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A Review by Rev. Richenda Fairhurst
A Review of the Revised Edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change by the Reverend Richenda Fairhurst Also at: Love in a Time…
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Awakening to New Ways of Seeing the World (Part 2)
Now that the revised edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change, has been released by Fortress Press, I am posting excerpts. Today’s excerpt…
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Awakening to New Ways of Seeing the World (Part 1)
Now that the revised edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change, has been released by Fortress Press, I am posting excerpts. Today’s excerpt…
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Introductory Video to Love in a Time of Climate Change
In the revised edition of Love in a Time of Climate Change, Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice, I invite you to embark with me on a…
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A Deeper Understanding of Hope
Greetings friends, on this New Year’s Day, 2026. In just thirteen days, the revised edition of my book, Love in a Time of Climate Change,…
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Light in the Darkness
“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 In this Christmas season, with all its joys and sorrows,…