Episode 25: "EcoJustice"
The Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade is the Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. An ordained Lutheran minister since 2000, Leah has written five books, including three focusing on environment and faith. She has served as an anti-fracking and climate activist, community organizer, and advocate for environmental justice issues, and is the “EcoPreacher” blogger for Patheos at patheos.com/blogs/ecopreacher/. She has recently launched a partnership with the Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development to create a monthly resource called EcoPreacher 1-2-3 for busy pastors wanting to address environmental issues in their sermons.
Leah’s ecotheology books: Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit, For the Beauty of the Earth: A Lenten Devotional, and Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis. Leah also mentions her book Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide.
David mentions Robert Parham’s Loving Neighbors Across Time: Christian Guide to Protecting the Earth.
Leah mentions the Kettering Foundation deliberative dialogue method described in Speaking of Politics: Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue. Check out a powerpoint by Leah on deliberative dialogue here.
Here’s Leah’s powerpoint on her sermon-dialogue-sermon method.
Leah mentions The Green Bible.
Leah mentions EcoAmerica’s resources for faith communities called Blessed Tomorrow.
Leah mentions the ELCA’s Lutherans Restoring Creation and the Disciples of Christ Green Chalice program.
Another resource Leah mentions: Eco Bible: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus