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

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog, "Encountering Nature And God – As Triune?" hpaulsantmire.net/encountering... Great thanks to artist Eric Aho ericaho.com

Compelling connection between faith and activism www.earthday.org/how-my-catho... @earthdayorg.bsky.social #EarthDay #Faith

September 30, "Building a Moral Economy" An online conversation with Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobedo 5pm PT/8pm ET bit.ly/moral-economy hosted in partnership with Creation Justice Ministries, the Center for Climate Justice and Faith, and Blessed Tomorrow

"...producing enough food to sustain the global population while preserving critically important ecosystems is increasingly difficult…in the last fifteen years, vertical farming has emerged as a promising alternative to [many] current farming practices..." www.earthday.org/skyscraper-c...

Celebrating SunDay with @thirdactfaith.bsky.social, a new post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/a-boring-fol... @elcalutherans.bsky.social @lutheransrc.bsky.social

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "When I first started preaching, two of my congregants were internationally known New Testament scholars, Krister Stendahl and Helmut Koester. It scared the exegesis out of me..." hpaulsantmire.net/one-rule-for...

🌿 Discover how to create a Spirituality in Nature Group (SING) in your community! This workshop will inspire connection, practice, and care for Creation. 🌱Spirituality in Nature Group Leadership Training 📅September 13, 1 - 4pm ET, Online Learn more and sign up at: bit.ly/sing-25

🍃We're one week away! The Season of Creation runs from Sept 1-Oct 4; how your church is recognizing this special time. Share your photos and stories with us! Find ideas here: bit.ly/CreationSeason #SeasonOfCreation

In a word: heat kills. -hps www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o... #GiftArticle

I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25

Let the sun shine in: Kudos! "Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome...into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs...the world’s first carbon-neutral state." apnews.com/article/pope...

Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25

"I would like to think that, at least on some occasions, my awareness of my own color-blindness, has made me a better theologian..." New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/maximize-the...

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "I began my public theological vocation with my first book, Brother Earth (1970), by calling for a new theology of nature. I ended that book by discussing Jesus and the earth; and more, Jesus and the whole cosmos..." hpaulsantmire.net/jesus-and-ma...

Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25

I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25

AAR's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of religion. Send in your nominations by September 15, 2025: aarweb.org/award/martin...

The article says “multiple synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, including those in New England, the greater Milwaukee area, southwest California, and southwest Texas” signed on.

Apparently ELCA Churchwide did not sign on to the lawsuit, only the New England Synod.

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: Reprise: Does the Sunday Eucharist “Work” at Home? "I learned the other day that online worship in my particular Church judicatory, the New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is a big deal..." hpaulsantmire.net/reprise-does...

The ELCA @elcalutherans.bsky.social is a part of the new lawsuit arguing "raids, arrests, and surveillance at [houses of worship] could deny people of faith access to their places of worship and violate religious freedom rights." www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chu... @commondreams.org

🕊️ Peace with Creation: 2025 guide now out 🌎 "Creation cries out in suffering. We acknowledge the urgent call to action . . . and that we can only respond to it on the basis of faith." Rev. Dr Anne Burghardt, LWF General Secretary 💬 How will you observe the Season of Creation? #LutheranWorld

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "I hear tell that for a growing number of Christian congregations today money on the Altar is passé. Gone is the practice that I knew so well as a child..." hpaulsantmire.net/money-on-the...

Here is a #GiftArticle of the @nytimes.com coverage of this important new formulary: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/w...

I salute Pope Leo’s statement...this is the kind of liturgical initiative that I have long called for...liturgy is the Church’s mode of identity-formation. hpaulsantmire.net/pope-leo-xiv... #CaringForCreation @lutheransrc.bsky.social

A new short post on my Walking Thoughts blog: The Grandeur of Grain Silos hpaulsantmire.net/the-grandeur...

No Kings! Great turn out in Oxford County Maine!

Climate.gov was a project of NOAA. Failure to teach our children is suicidal. Failure to teach climate change is homicidal. Millions are displaced every year. Thousands die. Climate change must be addressed and it must be funded. Thank you climate.gov www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I dedicate my latest blog post on Walking Thoughts with gratitude to @billmckibben.bsky.social who knows his Bible well: hpaulsantmire.net/the-earth-a-...

What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what! If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️

This evening, the eco lay course I co-lead visited a church that started 5yrs ago with a land project Today it enhances local #biodiversity, helps food pantries & even hosts a new popular 'Woody Church' As I keep saying #creation care is inherently missional in the broadest sense of the word

New Walking Thoughts blog post: Nothing Butters (Part Two): Rather, Matter Matters "...Come along with me now on this roller coaster of classical Christian thinking, with particular reference to the Reformer of the sixteenth century, Martin Luther..." hpaulsantmire.net/nothing-butt...

New Walking Thoughts blog post: "...Come along with me now on this roller coaster of classical Christian thinking, with particular reference to the Reformer of the sixteenth century, Martin Luther..." hpaulsantmire.net/nothing-butt...

New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "True. Nothing butters like a piece of toast in the morning. But I’m thinking of a state of mind. I once encountered this condition as an undergraduate in the nineteen-fifties when I took a philosophy course..." hpaulsantmire.net/nothing-butt...

89.5 years old, his knees are shot but he's still churning out his blog posts! My Dad, that is. :-) I'm so grateful to get to be a part of sharing his insights with the wider world.

"Do you need a break from your longstanding anxieties about our global ecojustice crisis? Probably you do. Do you also need a way to get Donald Trump out of your head, at least for a while? I can imagine that you might...." Read more here: hpaulsantmire.net/behold-the-c...

Fun fact: there’s now an #ELCA Lutheran seminary (LSTC) inside the walls of the Catholic seminary that Pope Leo attended (CTU), whereLutherans and Catholics learn alongside each other. And Martin Luther, like Leo, was an Augustinian. www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

And... this has also been made into the ELCA/ELCIC Lutheran clergy starter pack: go.bsky.app/CpTrdpu #ELCA #ELCIC #Lutheran

Looking for posts mentioning the @elcalutherans.bsky.social? My daughter made a feed you can follow: bsky.app/profile/did:... #ELCA

A new post on my Walking Thoughts blog, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar:" hpaulsantmire.net/kareem-abdul... #HarvardGazette @harvard.edu

This essay is a revised excerpt from my latest book, in response to my encounter with the Van Gogh exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the week before Easter, 2025. hpaulsantmire.net/van-goghs-ce...

In this post, I note how @nytimes.com should do better. hpaulsantmire.net/pope-francis...

Thank you to @isaacvillegas.bsky.social in @christiancentury.bsky.social whose writing moved me to recommend a "Post-Easter Mellow." Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-post-eas... on my Walking Thoughts Blog.

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day—go out and support your local!

"If the hungry do not come to faith, the guilt falls on those who denied them bread." —Bonhoeffer

A few months after comforting survivors of one of the strongest recorded tropical cyclones, Pope Francis published his landmark encyclical, “Laudato Si',” which cast care for the planet as an urgent and existential moral concern. religionnews.com/2025/04/22/p...

Thank you to @isaacvillegas.bsky.social in @christiancentury.bsky.social whose writing moved me to recommend a "Post-Easter Mellow." Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-post-eas... on my Walking Thoughts Blog.

It's no joke! #earthmonth is here! And with 3 weeks to go until #EarthDay, the good news is that LRC has you covered! We've got 5 ways you can celebrate with your church, INCLUDING a special Earth Day sermon from Rev. Dr. Barbara Rossing-- register now! bit.ly/lrc-earthday

Having devoted a professional and personal lifetime to the theology of nature and ecojustice theology in particular, I find Pope Francis’ most stellar contribution was his globally celebrated encyclical Laudato Si’. -hps hpaulsantmire.net/denis-edward...