Developing an ecotheology of critical hope in Cascadia
Ben Lomond Quaker Center is hosting a virtual workshop series I'm leading on Tuesday evenings in May 2026 called "Organizing for Climate Resilience." This will be useful for Friends (Quakers) as well as anyone who is interested, with a particular focus on faith-based organizing. I'm hoping that people will sign up with 1–2 others from …
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The book Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults was released last year, and I served as a scholarly co-author (with Catalina Morales Bahena) for the chapter called: "Reclaiming 'Enough': Away from scarcity toward true abundance." There's a great Discussion Toolkit with suggestions for groups regarding each chapter (here's ours). There's also …
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Last week, I had the opportunity to offer the Beane Lecture at William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa. My topic was, "'Walk Cheerfully Over the World': Living Justly Amidst Climate Change" (the link is to a video of the talk, if you're interested). The Beane Lecture offers an opportunity for students, faculty, and the community …
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The Handbook on Religion and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2026) was recently released, and included an article I wrote called: "Faith communities as participants in climate resilience hubs: a case study from Oregon." While I have not yet received a contributor copy, the list of chapter titles sounds excellent! Scholars from a variety of religious …
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I got to be a guest co-editor for a special issue of Quaker Studies, which came out today, and it included my article, "Quakers and Ecospirituality: Spiritual Grounding for Climate Action." My co-editor was Barbara Welling Hall, and Rhiannon Grant is the Quaker Studies editor. This issue includes many of the papers that were presented …
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I had the joy of contributing a co-written chapter called "Reclaiming 'Enough': Away from Scarcity Toward True Abundance," which appears in the new book Hungry for Hope: Letters to the Church from Young Adults (Eerdmans 2025, eds Jeremy Paul Myers and Kristina Frugé). My co-author is Catalina Morales Bahena. This was a really fun project …
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On April 12, 2025, I'll be sharing with the group Quakers Uniting in Publication at their virtual mid-year meeting on the topic: "Publishers of Truth in an Era of Climate Change and Authoritarianism." Register here. We're in a difficult moment right now in the US, with activists being targeted, higher education being squeezed financially and …
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This week, I published an article based on my dissertation research. The article is, "Ecospiritual Praxis: Cultivating Connection to Address the Climate Crisis," and it's in the journal Religions. This was a special issue titled, "Undisciplining Religion and Science: Science, Religion and Nature," with guest editors Whitney Bauman and Lisa Stenmark. I think the idea …
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Lauren Brownlee reviewed A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends in Friends Journal for the March 2024 issue. The review can be found here. Brownlee shares some of her observations about the book and says her favorite chapter is on "Incarnation and a Quaker Ecotheology of Light" (chapter 2), which is a short …
Quakers, Ecology, and the Light, which I co-wrote with Christy Randazzo, was recently reviewed in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture. Many thanks to Sarah Werner for the review. Werner gives an overview of the book's contents, concluding: An interdependent ecotheology of Light has wide appeal beyond those in the Religious …
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