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A memoir that cannot find the words
Journalist Lauren Markham finds herself searching for language adequate for grief on a planetary scale.
A feast day for the whole church
“The Feast of Creation in Christ names our need to celebrate God’s saving work in creation,” says liturgical theologian Kimberly Belcher, “and to do so together.”
A desert liturgy in verse
Poet Diana Woodcock blends Muslim and Christian sensibilities into a devotional reckoning with a wounded planet.
What kind of man will I be when the world burns?
Tim Winton’s novel Juice tackles climate change, masculinity, and violence.
Feeling our way through climate change
A yearlong conversation between scientists and clergy has helped me rethink the promise of MDiv education.
A farewell to snow
Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God reminds me how much we have to mourn as we enter a climate dystopia.
Trending topics: Literary bestiaries
Assistant editor Jasmin Pittman reviews five new books.
The wild earth and its consolations
The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological treatise.
Fighting climate change with Black soul power
Heather McTeer Toney’s masterful weaving of storytelling, history, hope, and scientific truth is for Black people, White allies, and everyone.
Sacred waters, melting ice
Baptismal rituals in glacial lands hold memories of the past—and wisdom for facing climate change.
When climate is a tool of empire
David Livingstone explores the dubious history of overclaiming or distorting the role of climate.
The grace of apocalyptic imagination
As the depth of the climate crisis is revealed, our despair grows. But God hovers at the edge of doom.
Trending topics: Ecology without colonialism
Five new postcolonial perspectives on living faithfully through climate change