A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer
By Kenji Kuramitsu. A collection of prayers on a wide spectrum of social issues including domestic abuse, mental health, mass incarceration, and environmental... Read More
A Catholic Response to Global Warming
By Steven J. Coleman. A resource from the Catholic Climate Covenant, designed to provide a basic understanding of Catholic Social teaching on... Read More
A Creed for Today: Faith and Commitment for Our New Earth Awareness
By Donal Dorr. Lays out a statement of Christian belief that takes into account our contemporary standpoint in relation to ecology and... Read More
Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice
By Eddie Ahn. A graphic memoir following the author — an environmental justice lawyer and activist –striving to serve diverse communities in... Read More
All the Way In: A Story of Activism, Incarceration, and Organic Farming
By Jeanne Clark OP. The story of one Dominican sister’s ongoing journey in religious life, moving from conventional ministries to a growing... Read More
Alternative Globalization Addressing Peoples and Earth
A resource created by the Justice, Peace and Creation Team, World Council of Churches, explores the question of how the churches and... Read More
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
By Randy Woodley. Through meditations and ideas for reflection and action, the author — an activist, author, scholar, and Cherokee descendant —... Read More
Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions
By Heather McTeer Toney. Argues that those most affected by climate change are best suited to lead the movement for climate justice.... Read More
Care for Creation
By Sr. Ilia Delio OSF, Br. Keith Warner OFM, and Pamela Wood. Takes a theological and practical approach to developing a Franciscan... Read More
Caring for Our Common Home: A Practical Guide to Laudato Si’
By Catherine Wright. Helps readers answer the question, “What kind of world we want to leave those who come after us, to... Read More
Caring for Our Common Home: An Ecumenical and Inter-religious Concern
A document issued by the World Council of Churches, affirming Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si, Caring for Our Common Home. Read more.
Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change
By Jim Antal. Argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses,... Read More
Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience and the Fight for a Sustainable Future
By Mary Robinson. A call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing... Read More
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses & Citizens Can Save the Planet
By Michael Bloomberg & Carl Pope. Provides a road map for tackling the most complicated challenge the world has ever faced by... Read More
Creation at the Crossroads
By Edward Ciuba. A small-group faith-sharing resource created through the collaboration of RENEW International, GreenFaith, and the Catholic Climate Covenant. It contains... Read More
Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World (Biblical Theology for Life)
By Douglas Moo and Jonathan Moo. Part of the Biblical Theology for Life series, this father and son team explore the place... Read More
Creation’s Wisdom: Spiritual Practice and Climate Change
By Daniel Wolpert. Speaks to the need for a spirituality during a time of massive climate change, crisis, and disruption. What does... Read More
Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit
By Leah Schade. Works with the premise that all of Creation, including humankind, needs to hear the Good News of Jesus’ resurrection... Read More
Discover Your Neighbor
A resource from Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, these periodicals for young people touch on topics such as Care of Creation, Economic Justice... Read More
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
By Paul Hawken. Offers the 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers... Read More
Earth Community in Christ: Through the Integrity of Creation towards Justice and Peace for All
A downloadable booklet formed by several of the world’s women and men’s religious communities. Published by the Integrity of Creation Working Group... Read More
Earth Day 50th Anniversary Special Edition: How We Saved the World/How We Lost the Planet
The April 2020 issue of National Geographic questions what lies ahead for the planet in the next 50 years — both positively... Read More
Earth’s Journey Into Hope: Reflections on Thomas Berry’s Great Work
By Brian Edward Brown. Considers the impact of Thomas Berry’s landmark text in ecological theology, The Great Work, on the 25th anniversary... Read More
EcoActivist Testament: Explorations of Faith and Nature for Fellow Travelers
By H. Paul Santmire. Written for those who are at the front lines of discipleship in this era of planetary emergency, especially... Read More
Ecology at the Heart of Faith
By Denis Edwards. Shows connections between Christian spirituality, the Biblical prophetic tradition, poetry and science. Click here for more information.
Ecology, Liturgy and the Sacraments
By Kevin W. Irwin. Based on the principle that the liturgy is the enactment of “the work of our redemption” through the... Read More
Ecomartyrdom in the Americas: Living and Dying for Our Common Home
By Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo. Explores the meaning of environmental defenders whose care for our common home has cost them their lives. Connects... Read More
Empowering Climate Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan’s Method
By John Raymaker with Ijaz Durrani. Addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard Lonergan’s functional specialization... Read More
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances
By Catherine Keller. Drawing on John’s prophetic Apocalypse, a “dreamreading” of our current global crisis—particularly the threat of climate change and ecological... Read More
Faith for Earth: A Call for Action
First published at the beginning of the twenty-first century, this resource was the result of a joint project of the United Nations... Read More
Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present
By Eugene Linden. A big-picture reckoning with our failure to address climate change. Starting with the 1980s, tells the story, decade by decade,... Read More
Following Jesus in a Warming World: A Christian Call to Climate Action
By Kyle Meyaard-Schaap. The author believes that many young Christians are waking up to the realities of climate change. They want to... Read More
Food and Faith: Justice, Joy and Daily Bread
Edited by Michael Schut. Collection of reflections on the moral, spiritual and economic implications of eating, connecting us to the land, to... Read More
God’s Good Earth: Praise and Prayer for Creation
By Anne & Jeffrey Rowthorn. A resource for prayer, reflection, and worship that reflects and nourishes efforts to serve God and care... Read More
Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action
By Erin Lothes Biviano. Answers the question: “How do we encourage and empower activists and scholars to work for environmental sustainability?” Combines... Read More
Integral Ecology and the Fullness of Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives
By Anthony Kelly. Presents ecology from a religious perspective, so that ideological divisiveness and monodimensional mind-sets might be avoided. Holds that a... Read More
Laudate Deum (Praise God)
An apostolic exhortation from Pope Francis building on his 2015 encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si (Praise Be to You Lord). He... Read More
Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness
By Erik Reece. Provides insights on the complicated problem of mountaintop removal, in a first person account of the devastation of Appalachia... Read More
Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice
By Sharon Delgrado. The book’s premise is that love of God and neighbor in this time of climate change requires us to... Read More
Love Your Mother: 50 States, 50 Stories, and 50 Women United for Climate Justice
By Mallory McDuff. Provides a roadmap to engage in climate justice by featuring women of diverse ages, backgrounds, and vocations — one... Read More
Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
By Kate Rigby. Practices an ancient form of theological reflection―the hexameron―on creation and attends to current concerns for the wellbeing of creation... Read More
Reforesting Faith: What Trees Teach Us About the Nature of God and His Love for Us
By Dr. Matthew Sleeth. Points out that the Bible talks about trees more than any living creation — other than people. Connects... Read More
Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth
By Tony Hiss. Sets out on a journey to take stock of the “superorganism” that is the earth: its land, its elements,... Read More
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
By Katherine Hayhoe — chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy and an evangelical Christian — who offers an optimistic view on why collective... Read More
Silent Spring
By Rachel Carson. Documents the detrimental effects on the environment—particularly on birds—of the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Read more.
Sojourners
Encourages Christians to put their faith into action in the passionate pursuit of social justice, peace, and environmental stewardship through resources like... Read More
The Better World Shopping Guide
Representing over 15 years of distilled research, data in this comprehensive guide is organized into common product categories including coffee, energy bars,... Read More
The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth
Views the inter-relatedness of Earth’s future and the Christian future, ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue and... Read More
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
By Greta Thunberg. Incorporates the wisdom of over one hundred experts – geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers... Read More
The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
By Elizabeth L. Cline. Delves into research on fashion’s impacts and shows how to leverage fashion choices to change the world through... Read More
The Earth Charter
A framework for building a just, sustainable, and peaceful global society in the 21st century by inspiring a sense of global interdependence... Read More
The Earth Cries Out: How Faith Communities Meet the Challenges of Sustainability
By Gary Gardner. Describes best practices of faith communities responding to the impending climate and sustainability emergency, and presents the next steps... Read More
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
By Thomas Berry. Envisions how the human population can work to redeem the destruction wrought upon the planet. Click here for more... Read More
The Green Bible: Words of Love for a Suffering Planet
By Stephen Bede Scharper & Simon Appolloni. Reflections and excerpts from salient sources that engage ones senses and deepen ones understanding of... Read More
The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair
By Denis Hayes. Describes the problem of global warming, considers our available energy sources, offers dozens of ways to reduce energy use,... Read More
The Parish as Oasis: An Introduction to Practical Environmental Care
By Kevin Hargaden & Ciara Murphy. A practical and accessible introduction to how local churches can contribute to the healing the environmental crisis.... Read More
The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si’
By Joshtrom Kureethadam. A commentary on the key ideas and themes of Pope Francis’ encyclical letter on the environment, Laudato Si (Praise Be... Read More
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By David Wallace-Wells. Brings into relief the climate troubles that await—food shortages, refugee emergencies, and other crises that will reshape the globe.... Read More
The Violence of Climate Change: Lessons of Resistance from Nonviolent Activists
By Kevin O’Brien. Argues that we should respond to climate change first and foremost as a case of systematic and structural violence.... Read More
Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si
By Dermot Lane. Seeks to builds bridges between theology and ecology. Challenges theology to re-imagine who we are, who the Spirit is,... Read More
They Will Inherit the Earth: Peace and Nonviolence in a Time of Climate Change
By John Dear. Drawing on personal stories of his life in the desert of New Mexico, his time as a chaplain at Yosemite,... Read More
Understanding Imperiled Earth: How Archaeology and Human History Can Inform Our Planet’s Future
By Todd J. Braje. A unique introduction to how understanding archaeology can support modern-day sustainability efforts, from restoring forested land to developing fire... Read More
Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Faith
By David Cloutier. Emphasizes the importance of connecting both spiritually and morally as well as the importance of “finding our place” within... Read More
Where We Live: Environmental Activists’ Fight to Save Their Communities
By Randy Cunningham. Drawing on interviews the author conducted with environmental activists across rural and urban Appalachia and the Midwest, analyzes what... Read More
Women, Earth, and Creator Spirit
By Elizabeth A. Johnson. A revised edition of the same title published in 1990s, argues that the environment has only been degraded... Read More