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 …
A report on Oregon Faith Communities & Climate Resilience has just been released. I had a chance to work on a study this last summer for Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon's Creation Justice and Oregon Interfaith Power & Light, along with my friend and colleague Sarah Loose from Oregon Synod ELCA, director of disaster and climate …
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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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https://pendlehill.org/events/illuminate-summer-speaker-series-2023/ This summer we'll have our third annual collaboration between Barclay Press and Pendle Hill for a speaker series based on Illuminate, the Friends Bible study curriculum I edit and contribute to. This is a virtual series over Zoom on Mondays at 7:30–9:00pm EST. Dates are as follows: June 12, June 26, July 10, July …
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Friend Damon Motz-Storey and I have both been involved in climate justice organizing and advocacy in Oregon for the last few years in different organizations. We got together and wrote an article about our experiences advocating, organizing, and taking to the streets to participate in activist pressure and community building in Oregon. The article is …
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Many of us have experienced emergencies and catastrophic weather events related to climate change in the last few years. Rather than just hearing about a natural disaster somewhere else, most people on the planet are experiencing these events at or near their homes. It's important to do what we can to a) change our practices …
If you're thinking ahead to a practice to observe during Lent, consider reading the new Lenten devotional A Grounded Faith: Reconnecting with Creator and Creation in the Season of Lent. I contributed to this booklet, and other contributors include Michael Ellick, Solveig Nilsen-Goodin, Janet Parker, Joshua Grace, Jim Sequeira, and Tom Airey. We put this …
I had the opportunity to share a keynote address with North Pacific Yearly Meeting this summer, and I just received my author copies of the newest Western Friend, which holds an abridged version of that talk. You can see the table of contents for the September/October 2021 edition here. There are several great contributions relating …
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Cherice Bock 