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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Endorsements For Love in a Time of Climate Change Revised Edition
“Rooted in the Sharon Delgado’s vast climate justice advocacy and ministry work, Love in a Time of Climate Change links faith and action demanding radical transformation and systemic change. Centering marginalized voices—including women, communities in the Global South, and Indigenous communities—it calls for healing our relationship with nature and pursuing justice as sacred work. It is a beautiful and inspiring read in these times where hope, love, and action are much needed.”
—Ilka S. Vega, Executive for Economic and Environmental Justice of United Women in Faith
“Solutions to the world’s problems must include the churches if they are to be effective, and the churches must understand these challenges theologically if they are to be mobilized. Sharon Delgado masterfully articulates an unapologetically Wesleyan framework for climate justice and, in doing so, gives the churches the resources necessary to bring about lasting change. This book is a gift to Christians everywhere, one that ultimately extends to all of God’s creation. I highly recommend it.”
—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization
“This book is an act of witness, and a powerful one. It reminds us that if church is going to mean anything in a time of rapid climate change, it’s going to have to take on this toughest of all questions.”
—Michael E. Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center and author of Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
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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Endorsements for The Cross in the Midst of Creation
“Parhaps, like me, you barely recognize the Christian faith in the evanglical charactatures that dominate our public life. This book is a powerful guide to the actural, difficult, beautiful, and empowering gospel story, and a bridge back to a real faith for those with the courage to follow. — Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun and The Flag, The Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What Happened
“With radical fidelity to the ancient gospel, Sharon Delgado unleashes the timeliness of the cross amid current systems of social and ecological destruction. Through her spirited rendition we learn, we sense, we practice the rising up that is possible. Even now.”
—Catherine Keller, professor of constructive theology, Drew University
“This book is a powerful answer to the terrifying times in which we are living. Sharon Delgado has given voice to the cross that it might speak to the anxieties, confusion, and despair of this moment and point the way toward new life.”
—Nichola Torbett, activist and coeditor of Resipiscence: A Lenten Devotional to Dismantle White Supremacy
“Grappling with the danger and challenges of these times and grounded in an unwavering commitment to justice and creation, Sharon Delgado masterfully weaves Christian history, multiple liberation theologies, story, and contemplative practices into a work that redeems the cross as a symbol of inclusive love, collective liberation, and transformative praxis.”
—Beth Johnson, minister, activist, and public theologian, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
2020
Shaking the Gates of Hell: Faith-Led Resistance to Corporate Globalization, Second Edition (Fortress Press, 2007, 2020) presents an overview of the global economy from a faith perspective. It points to “the earth as primary revelation,” critiques the institutional “powers and principalities” of this world, and proposes following Jesus on a path of social and personal transformation.
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Endorsements for Shaking the Gates of Hell
“With clarity, nuance, and verbal artistry, Sharon Delgado’s Shaking the Gates of Hell offers invaluable guidance to all who seek moral-spiritual wisdom, vision, and power for resisting the demands of the corporate-and-finance driven global economy and forging more equitable and ecological alternatives.”
—Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Professor, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and author of Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation “This book speaks hard truth to hard power—it’s unsparing, and that’s what we need. It’s also loving, in the (not so easy) way that the Gospels are loving.”
—Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature and Here Comes the Sun
“Among the strengths of Sharon Delgado’s book is her theological eye for the ‘principalities and powers’ of our global situation. To the sweep of her social vision, her biblical lens adds depth and dimension. Her capacity to look upon the demonic without flinching is inseparable from our hope in this present age.”
—Bill Wylie-Kellermann, author of The Powers in Particular: A Practical Theology of the Powers That Be
“This book is authentic and convincing with personal experience and a great vision. In many corners of the world there is a new paradigm emerging, the earth community and participatory democracy, versus the old, outdated and destructive paradigm of corporate globalization. Get out of apathy. A better world is possible. I read this book with a moved heart and new encouragement.” — Jürgen Moltmann, author of A Theology of Hope and Sun of Righteousness, Arise!: God’s Future for Humanity and the Earth;