Sharon Delgado

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Category: Environment

  • Christian Responsibility for Climate Change

    Progressive Christian Social Action Christian Responsibility for Climate Change “How can modern Christianity have so solemnly folded its hands while so much of the work of God was being destroyed?”                                                              Wendell Berry As Hurricane Harvey devastates communities in Texas, catastrophic rains are also paralyzing cities in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, causing many deaths.…

  • My New Book is Out!

    Progressive Christian Social Action My New Book is Out! Hello friends.  I’m happy to announce that my new book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, has finally been released.  I’m delighted with how it turned out and thrilled to be holding copies in my hand.  It will be available in local bookstores here in Nevada…

  • Beyond the Spectacles

    Progressive Christian Social Action   Beyond the Spectacles As the daily spectacles of the Trump Administration enthrall the public, Republicans continue to push their unjust and oppressive agenda.  For one thing, they are trying to repeal laws that keep the Internet free and accessible.  Today I made calls as part of the Internet-Wide Day of…

  • Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right

    Progressive Christian Social Action Paris, Trump, and the Religious Right Note:  This article includes excerpts from my book, Love in a Time of Climate Change, to be released by Fortress Press in July.  Like many of you, I am appalled by many things that Donald Trump has said and done in the first months of…

  • Introducing Love in a Time of Climate Change

    Progressive Christian Social Action Blog Love in a Time of Climate Change Hello Friends, Today I am introducing my soon-to-be released book, Love in a Time of Climate Change:  Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice.  It offers a progressive Christian approach to climate change that takes climate science seriously.  It is based on the core teachings of…

  • Guest Post: UMC: Stop Investing in the Merchants of Doubt and Death!

    Progressive Christian Social Action Blog Guest Post from Mark Davies:  “United Methodist Church and Westpath, Stop Investing in the Merchants of Doubt and Death!” Today my blog features a guest post from Mark Y.A. Davies, the Wimberly Professor of Social and Ecological Ethics and Director of the World House Institute for Social and Ecological Responsibility…

  • Creation Crucified:  The Passion of the Earth

    During Lent, Christians remember and grieve Jesus’ death at the hands of a murderous system that included official representatives, religious collaborators, a public that could be manipulated, and friends who betrayed, denied, or abandoned him.  We remember and grieve the countless others who have been executed over the years by similar systems of worldly power. …

  • Dust and Ashes

    On this Ash Wednesday, I share with you an excerpt from my book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: It’s this radical humility that is absolutely essential to our time.—Brian Swimme As we consider the destruction of the earth and the suffering of our fellow creatures, both human and nonhuman, two primary responses seem appropriate: repentance…

  • Another Dam is Not a Solution to Climate Change

    The excessive rainfall that we have experienced recently is something that we can expect with climate change.  As average global temperatures rise, weather patterns are thrown off balance. We can’t know whether a particular extreme weather event is caused by such warming, but we do know that it makes such events statistically more likely. In…

  • More Clearcuts in Nevada County?

    Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) is at it again, planning to clearcut forested areas in Nevada County.  The Wash Timber Harvest Plan (THP) outlines their plans to engage in industrial forestry on 160 forested acres five miles from Nevada City, on land right next to South Yuba State Park.  According to the local Forest Issues Group,…