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February 7, 2024

Just Creation: Shalom for Our Common Home

In the spring of 2023, Columbia Theological Seminary hosted the conference “Just Creation: Shalom for Our Common Home.”  The conference, focused on matters of environmental justice, brought toget…

March 5, 2024

Wading in the Water by Rev. Dr. Jerusha Matsen Neal, Assistant Professor of Homiletics, Duke Divinity School

(The opening worship service began with a moment of silence for Manuel “Tortuguita” Páez Terán. Manuel had been protesting the construction of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center – nickn…

March 5, 2024

Anchored by Ross Reddick

As I boarded the plane that would take me from Cincinnati to Atlanta, I was feeling sick. It was not a disease of the body, but a dis-ease of the heart. There I was, on a plane that was dumping about …

March 5, 2024

A Reflection on Just Creation Sermon by Ashley Lewis and Kristen Sommerfeld

We attended the Just Creation conference as alumni of Columbia Theological Seminary and as representatives of two faith-based non-profits involved in food and ecological justice ministry. One of us is…

March 5, 2024

Seeing Through the Muck by Rev. Dr. Karen H. Webster and Rev. Travis A. Webster, Th. D.

Dr. Jerusha Matsen Neal’s sermon played a significant role in setting the tone for the “Just Creation: Shalom Our Common Home” conference, particularly in light of the intentionally difficul…