A growing movement of local churches, religions, and faith communities are putting environmental preservation front and center, framing the fight for climate solutions as a moral imperative to protect all life on a planet – now and for future generations.
Bay Area religious leaders march down Market Street in the “Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice” march, just days before the Global Climate Action Summit, in September 2018. A number of religious groups are joining the fight to combat climate change.
By the late 90s, Bingham had become an ordained priest at Grace Cathedral while also extending her preaching beyond the pulpit. She founded Regeneration Project, a nonprofit that works to deepen the connection between religion and ecology, and Interfaith Power and Light , a program that brings together a diverse array of faith groups to confront climate change.
“As far as I know, every one of the great world religions and all of the tribal religions with which I’m familiar, hold the Earth to be sacred,” said Rev. Dr. Marc Handley Andrus, the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California. “People say we’re already experiencing climate change in California, and I have to beg to differ,” said Andrus. “We are experiencing the leading edge of climate change. If we think this is terrible – the fires, the drought – we should understand that this is a fraction of what the full-blown climate change effects will be.”
But for some, returning to an earth-based theology can dredge up deep traumas. Rev. Dr. Ambrose Carroll, a pastor and founder of the Oakland-based nonprofit Green the Church, has faced resistance to what he calls ‘green theology.’ For some parishioners, he said, this call to return to the land can feel like a latent threat.
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