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September 25, 2014November 30, 2019

Fall 2014

Creation Care in the Great Economy: A Conversation with Wendell Berry

The following is an excerpt from a conversation between Centre College Professor (and ACSWP member) Eric Mount well-known farmer, writer, and activist

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August 15, 2019November 26, 2019

Making Peace With International Organizations

Progressives often associate international organizations with globalization and neoliberal economic policies, and there is truth to this critique. Right-wing intellectuals associate them with liberal policy initiatives like family planning and environmental regulation, and there is truth to those connections, as

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November 30, 2018September 13, 2019

Advent Justice Reflections (Year C)

November 21, 2018September 18, 2019

A New Exile from the Garden?

Environment

Breaking Down Walls: A Collaborative Response to Climate Change

November 18, 2016October 24, 2019

by Patricia Tull

12 mins read

Originally published on October 27, 2016 at http://www.fossilfreepcusablog.org/blog/breaking-down-walls-a-collaborative-response-to-climate-change Environmental advocates on all sides of the PC(USA)’s divestment debate at June’s General Assembly meeting were dismayed, if not depressed, by the outcome. We entered the week with one widely supported overture from Fossil Free PCUSA and 31 presbyteries, three well supported

Environment/Fall 2016/Racial Justice

Don’t Let the Stones Cry Out In Your Place

October 27, 2016October 24, 2019

by Abby Mohaupt and Aric Clark

14 mins read

There is no debate about climate change. We’re not talking about the fact that the scientific consensus is overwhelming (though that’s true). We’re talking about the fact that climate change wasn’t the subject of a single question during the presidential debates. Our political discourse right now is deafeningly silent about

Environment/Summer 2016

Divestment: Loving Creation and Each Other With Our Whole Selves

June 24, 2016October 24, 2019

by Abby Mohaupt

9 mins read

The author would like to note that the opinions expressed here are the author’s alone. When I came to General Assembly, I’d already spent three years of my life working on divestment from fossil fuels. Fossil Free PCUSA was born in 2013, and in the last year we’ve worked with Presbyterians

Environment/Summer 2016

Emission Responsibility Through Investment

June 15, 2016October 24, 2019

by Kerri Allen and Steve Webb

19 mins read

Creating Criteria for Corporate Engagement and Environmental Responsibility From the earliest days of the Reformed Tradition, we have understood ourselves to be political. As God is active in all spheres of life, so are we called to be engaged in the social polis. This is one of the most difficult

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

General Assembly: Family Reunion and Care for the Earth

June 9, 2016November 18, 2019

by Rebecca Barnes

9 mins read

A lot of Presbyterians affectionately refer to GA as a family reunion, even as we may groan about long hours, worry about contentious issues, pray for God’s Spirit to work in the stuck places, and occasionally feel overcome by bone-deep exhaustion. For me, it is indeed wonderful to see how

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

Fossil Fuel Divestment: Strengthening Our Response to an Urgent Crisis

June 8, 2016November 18, 2019

by Abby Mohaupt and Colleen Earp

11 mins read

A Perspective from Fossil Free PC(USA) In the shadow of the Paris Accords, rising global temperatures, and changing climates, we are thankful for the many voices discussing climate change in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). We recognize that our denomination has suffered and survived turmoil in the wake of the last

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

A Response to “Divesting from the Sins of Our Past”

June 7, 2016November 18, 2019

by Ron Spross

14 mins read

A Perspective from Faithful Alternatives for Engagement with Climate Change The upcoming General Assembly will consider various overtures calling for PC(USA) action on climate change. Ben Perry has discussed the issues in his article “Divesting from the Sins of our Past”. Two groups within our denomination have been especially active

Environment/Social Policy/Summer 2016

Divesting from the Sins of Our Past

May 25, 2016November 18, 2019

by Benjamin Perry

25 mins read

Climate change has quickly emerged as one of the world’s greatest threats. You only need to turn on the television or peruse a newspaper to see the devastating effects on environments and communities around the globe. The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is a denomination committed to responding to God’s call to

Fall 2015

Ecumenical Chaos and the Christian Ecosystem

October 15, 2015November 18, 2019

by Michelle Bartel

12 mins read

Ecumenism is a useful word, but it’s small. Ecumenical is a useful word, and it is vast. Ecumenism refers to institutional commitment. Ecumenical refers to an organic reality. My first awareness of ecumenism and ecumenical commitments came when I was studying Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was fully involved in ecumenical concerns

Fall 2015

Reconciled Diversity

October 14, 2015November 18, 2019

by Clifton Kirkpatrick

29 mins read

An Ecumenical Vision for the 21st Century “In Christ God was reconciling the world…and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.” –II Corinthians 5:19 You won’t be surprised that a professor of Ecumenical Studies has chosen to write on the gift of the ecumenical movement for our common Christian pilgrimage.

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