Laudato Si

Let’s Create a Better World

As I imagine a flourishing world, I picture one in which we are all able to become our truest, best, most Christlike selves.

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Man stands before a tree

Let’s Go Big for a Better World

Our Christian faith can be an essential aid for us as we discern, articulate, and evaluate large-scale visions.
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Bee on a flower | Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash

Seeing the World as Kin

Through the eyes of love, we see a tree as kin to us, a fellow God-made creature, with its own dignity and its own right to live and grow.
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Apathy Is the New Deadly Sin

Express outrage, offer prayers, do nothing; express outrage, offer prayers, do nothing; repeat! Sound familiar? This is our pattern after every mass shooting. We hear about a horrific shooting where many men, women, children (fill in the blank) are killed ...
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God Wastes Nothing

If we are called to conform ourselves and our culture to the nature of God and the nature of nature, then we can’t simply throw away things.
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Lent with a Shade of Green

We humans tend to compartmentalize just about every aspect of our lives, from what we do in mundane daily rituals to how we engage with entire holy seasons. There's comfort in routine, to be certain. The cycle of holidays, holy ...
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The Greta Thunberg Effect

This past September 23, millions of people around the world walked out of their schools and workplaces to demand urgent action on climate change. The protests were scheduled prior to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly and the ...
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