Following Jesus into the heart of the struggle for a transformed world.

One of Sharon Delgado’s recent online sermons, “God Bless the Grass,” celebrates the 50th anniversary of Earth Day during the Easter Season, 2020.  This sermon focuses on God’s activity in bringing new life, even in the midst of death, in the context of the Covid 19 pandemic and other grave challenges of our time.

The Reverend Sharon Delgado is a United Methodist minister, author, speaker, and activist.  She preaches, speaks, leads workshops, and writes on globalization, climate change, economic and environmental justice, and peacemaking, while pointing toward hope and action for a transformed world.  Contact Sharon to invite her to speak at your church, conference, action, or other event online or in person.

Sharon’s updated Second Edition of Shaking the Gates of Hell:  Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization (Fortress Press) was released in January, 2020.  This book makes the case that humanity faces a living hell on earth of widespread poverty, social upheaval, repression, war, human misery, and ecological collapse.  Huge corporations drive economic globalization, exacerbating these global threats by triggering a “race to the bottom.”  Nations lower environmental, labor, and human rights standards in order to compete in the global economy.  Though there are powerful forces at work that threaten life, we need not fear.  These destructive forces are not abstract and irreversible, but emerge from actual institutions that hold political, economic, and military power.  We can meet these forces with courage if we are deeply grounded in our relationship with God. Together, people of faith and conscience around the world can “shake the gates of hell,” resisting the horror of a barren, violent, and poisoned future, while developing new and viable alternatives to help build a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Sharon’s Love in a Time of Climate Change:  Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice (Fortress Press 2017) is a progressive Christian approach to climate change that respects other faiths and philosophies and takes climate science seriously.  It explores the themes of love and justice in the context of climate change from the perspective of scripture, tradition, reason, and experience.  Love in a Time of Climate Change has been endorsed by theologians, activists, and scientists, including 350.org founder Bill McKibben, climate scientist Michael Mann, theologian Catherine Keller, Interfaith Power and Light founder the Rev. Sally Bingham, and many others.  Find out more here.