The Season of Creation is an ecumenical church observance every September. In the NC Conference, the Creation Care Team is providing free worship resources and a weekly webinar series.
The Creation Care Team also donated several books to the NC Conference Media Center. These books are available to borrow to increase your own knowledge about creation care or to share with your small group or congregation. Additional resources you can borrow, including DVDs, small-group studies, and curricula for all ages, are listed in the Creation Care Pathfinder.
Harmony Creation Care Curriculum: God’s Original Plan and Original Seeds in a World of Diversity by Crystal Paul-Watson with Lavanda Paul
Rev. Crystal Paul-Watson and her mother, Lavanda Paul, are commissioned Earthkeepers in the Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church. This curriculum is a tool that can be used in young adult ministries and youth groups, as well as amongst parents who want to share the gift of gardening with their children and grandchildren. The curriculum interweaves gardening stories and strategies with Biblical narratives about Creation, stewardship, and multiculturalism.
Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred by Victoria Loorz
With an ecospiritual lens on biblical narratives and a fresh look at a community larger than our own species, this book uncovers the wild roots of faith and helps us deepen our commitment to a suffering earth by falling in love with it–and calling it church.
Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says About the Environment and Why It Matters by Sandra L. Richter
Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society as well as in biblical theology, she walks readers through biblical passages, showing how significant environmental theology is in the Bible’s witness and sharing case studies connecting modern-day examples and Scripture. She then calls Christians to apply that message to today’s environmental concerns.
Plundered: The Tangled Roots of Racial and Environmental Injustice by David W. Swanson
Pastor and activist David Swanson shows how we have failed our God-given duty as caretakers of creation, and how that failure has resulted in the exploitation of people and the extraction of natural resources. Yet Christians have the capacity to live in a way that nurtures racial and environmental justice simultaneously, honoring people and places in dynamic relationship with our creator God. Swanson shows how we can become communities of caretakers, restore our relationship with creation and each other, and the holistic justice that might result.
Before the Streetlights Come On: Black America’s Urgent Call for Climate Solutions by Heather McTeer Toney
Climate change is a central issue of racial justice and affects every aspect of life for Black communities. Climate activist Heather McTeer Toney brings her background in politics, community advocacy, and leadership in environmental justice to this revolutionary exploration of why and how Black Americans are uniquely qualified to lead national and global conversations around systems of racial disparity and solutions to the climate crisis.
Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit by Leah D. Schade
Informed by years of experience as an environmental activist and minister, Leah Schade equips preachers to interpret the Bible through a green lens, become rooted in environmental theology, and learn how to understand their preaching context in terms of the particular political, cultural, and biotic setting of their congregation. This book provides both theoretical grounding and practical tips for preachers to create environmental sermons that are relevant, courageous, creative, pastoral, and inspiring.
Landscape Liturgies: Resources to Celebrate and Bless the Earth by Nick Mayhew-Smith with Sarah Brush
This book offers outdoor worship material drawn from 2,000 years of outdoor Christian practice. It contains prayers, rituals, blessings, and liturgies compiled from Anglican, Roman Catholic, Methodist, and Orthodox sources, as well as early church material, the desert tradition, and monastic spirituality. It is a co-publication with the Susanna Wesley Foundation.
Request These Resources
These resources can be borrowed for free by anyone involved with a United Methodist Church in the North Carolina Conference. We will mail them to your home! All you need to do is fill out the Resource Request Form.