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Overview of the World Religions and Ecology

The creative tensions between humans seeking to transcend this world and yearning to be embedded in this world are part of the dynamics of world religions...

Religion and a New Environmental Ethic

Religions are developing a new consciousness about the natural world. Listen to two Yale professors explain in this video segment.

Green Facts

Being "green" isn't new. What do the statistics really tell us?

The World as Created, Fallen and Redeemed

In dialogue with Buddhists, a Catholic priest reflects on the creation and its implications for the world today.

Exploring Eco-Spirituality

Nature invites us to care for the naturual world as the Graden of both God and humankind.

Surfing in the Presence of God

A lifelong surfer explains why it is worth defending the environment for the witness Creation gives to the Creator.

Change That Condemns the Poor

The poor are already suffering -- and starving -- due to climate change.How should we respond?

Judaism and Ecology

From the start, God seems to recognize that people will frequently choose to misinterpret their stewardship as license to plunder the natural world...

Green Spiritual Trend: EcoSynagogues

Through the Regeneration Project, a campaign to mobilize religious groups in response to global warming, several hundred synagogues have joined the eco-friendly effort.

Nature Worship: A Primer

Authentic social change starts with common citizens who embrace a new understanding of moral dignity.

Downwardly Mobile

Where is God? One Christian pastor points down ...

Mormon Belief and the Environment

The notion that physical matter and all living things have some living spiritual character grants a sacred identity to the nonhuman realm.

He Is Not in the Desert

Should Mormons become more attuned to God's presence in nature?

Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust

Nature is not independently worthwhile but derives its value from God.

Whose Environmental Crisis?

What Islam offers the earth...

John Muir Was a Pagan

Muir's wide-open sense of church leads me to conclude that his natural spirituality grew beyond the parochial Christian God to a more Universal Creator or Creative Energy acknowledged by Wiccans, Pagans, and mystics.