Category: Environment
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Santa Marta Conference: Envisioning the Transformation of the World
I have been paying attention to the First International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, which met in Santa Marta, Colombia during the last week of April. As Convener of Fossil Free UMC and a member of the Coordinating Team of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, I wrote this article for United Methodist…
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New Creation: An Easter Reflection
This is the final post of the 2026 Lenten Series: A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. New Creation: An Easter Reflection “In the midst of suffering and death— be it individual, social, or ecological— the promise given to the Earth…
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Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance
Lenten Series: #6, A Spiritual Foundation for Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. Creation: Moving from Awe to Lament to Resistance The terrible silence of God in response to Christ’s prayer in Gethsemane was more than a deathly stillness. Mystics have felt it too,…
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The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves
Cherry tree in late snow, image by Sharon Delgado Lenten Series: #3, Spiritual Foundations of Resistance to Empire This post includes excerpts from “Creation Crucified: The Passion of the Earth,” which is Chapter 4 of Sharon’s book, The Cross in the Midst of Creation. The God Who Creates is the God Who Saves “I lift…
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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 is the second of two parts about awakening to new ways of seeing the world, sometimes painful, sometimes exhilarating. Soon after the first edition of Love in a Time of…
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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 journey of faith, a deepening journey that integrates personal spirituality with concern and action for climate justice. I demonstrate a process in this book of facing and learning about climate…
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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, will be released by Fortress Press. As that time approaches, I will be posting excerpts from the book. Today’s excerpt from the new preface is about hope. A Deeper Understanding…
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Fossil Fuels: The New “F” Word
COP 30 Ends with No Roadmap for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels Also Posted In United Methodist Insight These days, “fossil fuels” seems to be as unspeakable as the other “f” word used to be, at least in official documents addressing climate change. COP 30 ended not only without the roadmap to a transition away…
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Today I Heard God Speak to Me
“The Earth is the Primary Revelation” Thomas Berry Today I heard God speak to me in the voice of a Black-headed Grosbeak. Its familiar warble rose above the cacophony of bird song and brought me to tears. Tears of joy at a Pentecost ongoing, the Divine continually speaking to us in languages we earthlings can…
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COP 29: A Perilous Moment of Choice
Image by Laurie Bayen See the sign-on letter to world leaders below In 1992 I was part of the United Methodist delegation to Rio de Janeiro during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, where George HW Bush signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the foundational climate treaty. At that conference, the nations…