Category: Environment
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At This Time When the Earth Needs Us Most
I preached this sermon at First United Methodist Church in Roseville, California on October 4th, and went back to Roseville on the 14th to meet with their book study group that is reading and discussing Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice. I now offer it to you.
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Systemic Transformation: Speaking Up for Climate Action
As we head to the polls during these last few weeks of this election season, those of us who have been resisting the interrelated harms being inflicted on people and planet continue to hold out hope for transformational change. This will take more than minor changes in representation. We the people will need to continue…
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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…