Developing an ecotheology of critical hope in Cascadia
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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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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QuakerSpeak recently released a video, "A Quaker Way to Earthcare," where I'm talking about being participants in an interconnected community, and how this relates to Quaker and Christian understandings of the Light. We can belong in a community rather than trying to dominate and control it: this allows us to share, help, and heal, to …
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Over the summer, I had the opportunity to share on a podcast about my book, A Quaker Ecology, and my work in caring for the Earth, both in its ways that connect to Quakerism and spirituality, and addressing the intersections between the climate crisis, racism, and other inequities. Thanks so much to the Spirit in …
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If you have read my book, A Quaker Ecology, and would like to discuss it with others — or if you haven't had a chance to read it yet and want to — I'll be leading a course through Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre starting on October 9. The course is called "Quaker Ecology in a …
Quakers, Ecology, & the Light was released today! I co-authored this book with my good friend, Christy Randazzo. A few years ago, we were talking about the Quaker metaphor of the Light, and how this could be a really useful and meaningful metaphor that can help Friends (Quakers) develop a robust ecotheology from within our …
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If you haven't yet found Pendle Hill's podcast, "The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope," go check it out now! They came out with a first season in the fall of 2022, and once I started listening, I just binge-listened to all 5 episodes. Podcast host, Dwight Dunston, does an amazing job of opening up simultaneously …
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Quaker Earthcare Witness is hosting a book group for my book, A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends. It starts on April 5, 2023, and runs for 4 sessions on Wednesday nights at 7–8pm EST / 4–5pm PST. I'm excited that people will be reading this book together! Register here. Leave a comment …
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