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Everyone knows, practically every day, the cost of a gallon of gasoline at the local pump. What we may not recognize so constantly are its hidden costs, the environmental costs of its extraction from the (...)

“To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.” Romans 8: 6 I start with a deep, centering breath prayer. Closing my eyes, (...)

Discussion on Revised Common Lectionary texts for Fourth Sunday of Easter (May 7, 2017): (Gospel) John 10:1-10; (1st Reading) Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; (2nd Reading) 1 Peter 2:19-25. Recorded at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn., (...)

I am often asked, as I was this past Sunday at a church gathering, what is the one easiest step a Christian can take to care for creation. It was a “bite your tongue” moment. (...)

Discussion on Revised Common Lectionary texts for Fourth Sunday in Lent (Mar. 26, 2017): (Gospel) John 9:1-41; (1st Reading) 1 Samuel 16:1-13; Psalm 23; (2nd Reading) Ephesians 5:8-14. Recorded at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn., (...)

Last week at the public library in Evansville, Indiana, more than 125 people gathered for a program about building backyard bird habitats, complete with hundreds of photos of warblers and other songbirds, all taken in (...)

Discussion on texts for Fourth Sunday of Easter (Apr. 17, 2016): (Gospel) John 10:22-30; (First Reading) Acts 9:36-43 [7-20]; (Psalm) Psalm 23; (Second Reading) Revelation 7:9-17.

About a decade ago, while teaching an adult Sunday school class, I was pulled up short by this question from a teacher: “What is our church doing for Earth Day?” I referred the question to (...)

Discussion on texts for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Ordinary 16; July 19, 2015): (Gospel) Mark 6:30-34, 53-56; (First Reading) Jeremiah 23:1-6; (Semicontinuous First Reading) 2 Samuel 7:1-14a; Psalm 23; (Second Reading) Ephesians 2:11-22.

Pope Francis’s much anticipated encyclical entitled “Praised Be: On the Care of Our Common Home” was released on June 18. In it, he calls for an “integral ecology” attentive to both social and ecological dimensions (...)