Faith Formation & Spiritual Grounding for Creation Care
Even as we urgently respond to climate crisis and its myriad consequences, as people of faith, it is important to recognize that our relationship with creation extends beyond the need to steward Earth’s resources and be active advocates for environmental care.
As we respond to the clear, present, and increasing threat of climate crisis, it’s vital that we recognize our work as Episcopalians is not just about responding to climate change. At the most recent General Convention, the House of Bishops put forward a statement that read in part, “We are only fully human and fully alive when we are in right relationship with the whole created order. Apart from each other and nature, we are not our whole selves.”
The crisis we face is not solely ecological. It is also spiritual. The following resources have been compiled to help congregations and Episcopal communities explore the spiritual grounding for creation care and formation resources for establishing an ecological faith that honors right relationship with the whole created order:
Getting Started
- Creation Care & Loving Formation | The Episcopal Church
- Creation Care Pledge | The Episcopal Church (opens in a new tab)
- Love God, Love God’s World Creation Care Curriculum | The Episcopal Church (opens in a new tab)
- Creation Care Resources | The Episcopal Church (opens in a new tab)
Study Guides, Small Group Formation, and Liturgical Resources
- Rogation Days: A Rookie Anglican Guide | Anglican Compass (opens in a new tab)
- EcoPreacher Cohort | The BTS Center (opens in a new tab)
- Spirituality in Nature Groups | The Center for Spirituality in Nature (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
- Just Climate: Study Guide for Adult Christian Education | Creation Justice Ministries (opens in a new tab)
- Out of the Wilderness: Building Christian Faith and Keeping God’s Creation | Creation Justice Ministries (opens in a new tab)
- Rooted in God’s Word and Lands: A Celebration of the Earth that Nourishes Us | Creation Justice Ministries (opens in a new tab)
- Living in an Icon | Deep Green Faith (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
- Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice Resource | Interfaith Power & Light (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
Organizations
- BTS Center (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Action and Contemplation (opens in a new tab)
- Center for Spirituality in Nature (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)
- Creation Care Alliance (opens in a new tab)
- Creation Care Collective
- Creation Justice Ministries (opens in a new tab)
- Deep Green Faith (opens in a new tab)
- Watershed Discipleship (opens in a new tab)
- Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology (opens in a new tab)
Books
- Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer (opens in a new tab)
- Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church – Collin Bell and Robert S White, eds. (opens in a new tab)
- Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home – Pope Francis (opens in a new tab)
- Life After Doom – Brian McLaren (opens in a new tab)
- Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation – Ivone Gebara (opens in a new tab)
- Love God Heal Earth – The Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, ed. (opens in a new tab)
- Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis – Rev. Dr. Leah Schade & Rev. Margarett Bullitt-Jonas (opens in a new tab)
- Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice – Chad Meyers, ed. (opens in a new tab) (opens in a new tab)