This is a lovely one, an interview this week with the gentle and courageous Father Pete Nunnally of Water and Wilderness church. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-po...

Refugia Newsletter AND Refugia Podcast! My latest newsletter has exclusive video of PUFFINS! And the podcast so far in Season 4 features terrific guests: Heber Brown III, Douglas Day Kaufman, David Celesky, and Judy Hinck. More to come! refugianewsletter.substack.com

Such a great conversation with the inspiring Heber Brown! refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-po...

Sun Day! This week's newsletter is a celebration of the clean energy transition that is happening, right now, despite... all the things. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Season 4 dropping Sunday! Find the Refugia Podcast on your favorite podcast platform, and listen to conversations about Christian communities doing great climate work! Or sign up for my Substack newsletter to get episodes sent directly to your email inbox: refugianewsletter.substack.com.

Need a boost of sunshine and mental vitamin D? Check out this week's newsletter. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Wow! This is good news.

Great news! Grand Rapids, Michigan, (where I live) has an ambitious climate agenda, just passed by the City Commission. www.michiganpublic.org/environment-...

Faith/climate news in manageable doses with lots of opportunities to dive deeper. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

It is endlessly hilarious to me that the 5 denier scientists they are able to dig up for this ... are the same 5 denier scientists they were able to dig up 10 years ago, and 20 years ago. One might ask why no new scientists are joining this faction. Must be the global conspiracy.

Please do not be fooled by the "report" coming out of the White House on how high levels of CO2 are actually fine and we all have nothing to worry about so we should keep burning fossil fuels. This report is bogus. See below.

Really appreciate this good news about the fight against the insanity at the current EPA. Thanks to @jeremysymons.bsky.social. Need Some Good News? open.substack.com/pub/jeremysy...

Just good news and beautiful photos this week: you need a break as much as I do. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

"Without climate justice there is no peace, without ecological conversion there is no future, without listening to the people there are no real solutions." Powerful document from the Catholic bishops of the global South ahead of COP 30. www.raoen.org/2025/07/03/b...

Besides the usual stuff, two great books, two great interviews, and a killer graph. Plenty of inspiring and clarifying goodies this time! refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

So excited to see this excellent interview with the fabulous Rev. Mariama White-Hammond on Juneteenth and environmental justice! insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...

On Juneteenth especially, much gratitude for @greenthechurch.bsky.social, the Black Church Food Security Network, Soul Fire Farm, and so many other orgs fighting hard for climate justice and climate action. blackchurchfoodsecurity.net www.soulfirefarm.org www.greenthechurch.org

I'm reading "Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America" by sociologist Christian Smith (from Notre Dame). It is SO GOOD. I feel like it's explaining all the cultural upheavals I've seen from my parents' generation to my kids'. Essential reading for faith leaders, imo.

This Saturday is Show Your Stripes Day. Climate stripes on flags, socks, ties, etc. can help start a conversation. showyourstripes.info

Yes. Called my senators today. It's easy, and it matters.

Protests, defending the IRA, and other good stuff about faith and climate in this week's newsletter. Also: this photo of the Mediterranean (actually the Aegean). refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

OK, I indulged in few travel photos, yes, but there's also helpful faith/climate news here. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

In which I say hopeful things about the new pope, attempt to highlight some positive choices by businesses, and of course, feature a story about beavers. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

This, too!

Word is coming in that the new pope is a climate ally! Hooray! I'm feeling just a smidge more hopeful today...

Thanks for this, BioLogos folk: "We are convinced that supporting science is not just compatible with Christian faith — it is one of its modern expressions. ... Let us affirm science not out of political loyalty, but because it serves life, health, and justice." biologos.org/post/an-open...

Here's to the neurodivergent geeks! May they thrive!

Besides the usual faith/climate news roundup, we've got a fiddlehead fern theme going. Plus, I got the flying rhinos involved this time. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Faith/climate folk: watch for all the excitement building about Sun Day. And thanks to @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social for eloquently offering a Christian rationale for this movement, gathering all people of conscience and hope. dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-is-...

"Easter grabs us by the throat and shouts, “Live.” The radiant Jesus who leaves the tomb challenges our complacency with the forces of death, be they hopelessness, fear, discouragement, or lack of will.

Pope Francis and the Sun open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Honoring Pope Francis this Earth Day. Thank you, Pope Francis, for Laudato si' and and your clear perception of the deep spiritual dynamics at work in our weary world. insideclimatenews.org/news/2104202...

Sadly, I did not include the flying rhinoceros this time. Maybe next time. Still, you might find some interesting resources and news here. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Teaching Hamlet this week. This speech in 3.3 seems pertinent. Claudius attempting to repent and failing: In the corrupted currents of this world Offense’s gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft ‘tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But ‘tis not so above. 1/2

Hope is hard right now, but yesterday helped. Grand Rapids, Michigan: good turnout, good spirit.

People of faith: stay stalwart and stay up to date on climate news. I'm trying to help a little bit. Also: sandhill cranes are super cool. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

“The prophet engages in futuring fantasy. The prophet does not ask if the vision can be implemented, for questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before the implementation.” --Walter Brueggemann, Prophetic Imagination.

Catching our brazen urban deer in the act in our backyard. I think she's wondering if we think this is her good side.

Time to call Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urging her administration to reject the Line 5 tunnel project!!! www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/call_whitmer...

Thanks to the good folks @thirdactfaith.bsky.social who met tonight to plan and strategize. We concluded with this song, which cheered me up immensely for the path ahead. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Wz...

Whew, it's been a few weeks, eh? Here's my climate-and-faith newsletter for today. Yes, there is some good news in it. Plus eucalyptus bark photos. So cool. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Come for the photos of Lake Michigan, stay for the climate news (some of it even good). refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Sad to hear of Martin Marty's death. I will never forget meeting him in 1993. His graciousness, cheer, kindness, and insight have been a model to me ever since. When I met him, I was nine months pregnant. He asked me to let him know when baby was born--and he sent a gift! mailchi.mp/uchicago/a-l...

The theme of today's newsletter: resolute. And as always, people doing good work despite... everything. refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

Writing a little sly snark helped me feel better for a few minutes. Maybe it will help you, too. Thanks to my pal Pious Petunia for showing up in these dark days. reformedjournal.com/2025/02/15/p...

A great resource! Thanks to Heatmap folks for their work!

Need something to help hold you up right now? Maybe some stories/ideas in this week's newsletter will help. And there's a bonus beaver story, too. Thanks to @wildernesspriest.bsky.social and @jimantal.bsky.social for key contributions! refugianewsletter.substack.com/p/refugia-ne...

A helpful reality check. So grateful for PRRI's work. However, we are still dealing with 30% of Americans as either adherents to or sympathizers with Christian Nationalism, and that's hardly good news.

I found this essay by Rebecca Solnit today galvanizing. This hellishness is backlash, not our destination: "The nature of this emergency is pushback against the long emergence of a new, more egalitarian, inclusive, empathic, and aware society." meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/welcome-to-m...

The discourse we have been enduring is itself relentless abuse. My essay from Saturday on reformedjournal.com. reformedjournal.com/2025/02/01/d...