Fight Climate Change: Vote With Your Dollars

There’s something about superheroes that appeals to me. A person with tremendous powers and abilities, who chooses to use those gifts to help others, to make the world a better place… that’s the kind of person I want to be. I realized at an early age that I was not born on a distant planet […]

Fight Climate Change: Activate

When I was a younger man, and my knees and back did not ache like they do now, I worked at a Christian camp. One summer, some of the summer staff had tee shirts that I really liked. On the front the shirt read, “Blah blah blah,” while the back quoted 1 Corinthians 4:20: “For […]

Fight Climate Change: Talk About It

“Pastor, I wanted to say something to you after that sermon,” he began, placing his hand on my shoulder as if to stop me from running. The demographics of my location and the people around me were stereotypical of climate change deniers, so I braced myself for some negative feedback. I had been invited to […]

Fight Climate Change: Educate Yourself

The pork shoulder on the grill was completely engulfed in flames. I rushed into my brother’s kitchen to get baking soda to put the fire out. But I was ignorant of this kitchen. I opened cabinet after cabinet, but could not find any baking soda. Desperate, I grabbed the closest thing to baking soda I […]

Five Things Christians Can Do to Fight Climate Change

Climate change terrifies me. Climate change is the biggest threat life on our planet has ever faced, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me because I have two young daughters whom I love tremendously. I’m terrified the world they’ll live in will be mostly uninhabitable. Climate change terrifies me because I have seen the destruction […]

Climate Change and Christian Tribalism

I’ve been called a Liberal. I’ve been called a Conservative. People have assumed I’m a Republican, and people have assumed I’m a Democrat. It’s no secret that we are living in an incredibly divided society. The biggest lines of division seem to fall along political party lines, and a vitriolic tribalism is rampant in our […]

Nearer, My God, to Thee

O Lord, I have always found you closer in the light streaming through branches than through stained glass, in the sound of leaves underfoot than the harmonies of organ, in the scent of humus and moss than incense on the altar. Why, then, do I neglect to come here, into this first chapel, first sanctuary […]

The Care of Creation

On Christmas Eve, 1776, my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Joshua Davis, purchased some land south of Aycock Swamp in what is now Wayne County, NC. The American revolution had begun, and there was no way of knowing when or how it would end. In 1781, General Cornwallis marched his troops from Wilmington into Virginia, towards what would be […]

When Christians Dominate

Last year, our dog, Sonny, was put down. It was not an easy choice to make. Ever since, my kids have been asking for a new pet. Some days they want a new dog, other days a cat. They’ve asked for pet birds, pet bunnies, even a pet turtle. I can understand that; when I […]

Happy Earth Day

“The earth is the Lord’s and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants too. Because God is the one who established it on the seas; God set it firmly on the waters.” -Psalm 24: 1-2 (CEB) Happy Earth Day! The first Earth Day was the brainchild of […]