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Choosing a Card that’s Good for the Planet

M. Elizabeth Carter   |  December 27, 2022

If anxiety is destiny, this old earth may just have chance

Yesterday’s passing of a climate change bill is a step in the right direction

John Fea   |  August 8, 2022

Good news for those of us who care about the planet. Here is Robinson Meyer’s piece at The Atlantic: Climate change was born as a modern political issue in the United States Senate. On a hot June day in 1988,...

Al Gore compares climate deniers to Uvalde, Texas police

John Fea   |  July 26, 2022

Police officers in Uvalde, Texas waited 77 minutes before acting to save elementary school children at Robb Elementary School. Watch: On Sunday, Al Gore compared the lack of action on the part of these officers to those who deny the...

On climate change, ‘the perfect should not become the enemy of the good”

John Fea   |  July 24, 2022

I just got home from a three-week research trip and my lawn is out of control. But I can’t mow it because it’s nearly 100-degrees here in Pennsylvania. (Ok, I can mow it, but I don’t want to pass out...

Climate change at Jamestown

John Fea   |  May 11, 2022

The National Trust for Historic Preservation just placed it on a list of the country’s most endangered places. Here is Michael Ruane at The Washington Post: The dig site where archaeologist Sean Romo has just found the ancient fragment of...

Don’t teach your kids how to ski

John Fea   |  February 15, 2022

It doesn’t seem worth the investment. Eric Margolis explains at The New Republic: With an average of 16 feet of snowfall per year, Sapporo, Japan is one of the snowiest places on earth. But at the last Sapporo Snow Festival,...

Choosing a Card that’s Good for the Planet

M. Elizabeth Carter   |  February 7, 2022

If anxiety is destiny, this old earth may just have chance

The world is on fire

John Fea   |  December 22, 2021

The New York Times has gathered 183 climate stories from around the world. You can even type-in the name of your county to see the top climate change risk in your area. In my county of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, heat...

How climate change is threatening the National Museum of American History

John Fea   |  November 27, 2021

Some of the strongest critics of climate change policy are also some of the people most concerned about how our kids learn American history. Here is Chrisopher Flavelle at The New York Times: Nearly two million irreplaceable artifacts that tell...

Our infrastructure is not equipped for climate change

John Fea   |  June 30, 2021

On Sunday it was 112 degrees in Portland. Check out Robinson Meyer‘s sobering piece at The Atlantic. A taste: The Biden administration has been teased for trying to stuff climate change into an infrastructure frame. But this week has affirmed...

Evangelicals seem to be coming around on climate change

John Fea   |  April 29, 2021

In 2007, Richard Cizik, then vice-president of the National Association of Evangelicals, came under attack from some prominent evangelicals for his opposition to global warming. Jerry Falwell Sr. described evangelicals concerned with climate change as “earthism worshippers.” James Dobson called...

*Rolling Stone* tackles creation care

John Fea   |  March 22, 2021

Here is Alex Morris: From the inside, the issue is still often spun as theological. But as awareness of the climate crisis has grown, young evangelicals who grew up singing, “He’s got the whole world in his hands,” have started...

God $ Green

John Fea   |  March 15, 2021

If you want to know how American evangelicals have come to reject climate change watch “God $ Green: An Unholy Alliance,” a video from the University of Virginia’s Religion, Race & Democracy Lab. It includes commentary from American historian Darren...

Mapping Catholic land; fighting climate change

John Fea   |  February 4, 2021

Molly Burhans, a liberal arts graduate of Canisius College, a Catholic college in Buffalo, is leading a major project to help the Catholic Church map its vast landholdings in order to help it fight climate change. David Owen of The...

My case for Joe Biden

John Fea   |  October 29, 2020

Many have asked me to weigh-in on the election. Let me begin by saying that my choice of a candidate was not difficult. Donald Trump is immoral. He is a pathological liar. He is a narcissist. He is a racist...

How did the court evangelicals respond to last night’s debate?

John Fea   |  October 23, 2020

They loved it, of course. Let’s begin, one more time, with American religious historian Grant Wacker from his biography of Billy Graham: The crucial point is that Graham continued to defend Nixon long after most Americans smelled a rat. When...

What COVID-19 exposed about the United States

John Fea   |  August 4, 2020

All of these points come from Ed Yong’s recent piece at The Atlantic: “How the Pandemic Defeated America.” We under-fund public health. Our health-care system is weak. Too much of what we do spend on healthcare is wasted. We have not...

Tampa Bay Catholics and Evangelicals Discuss Climate Change

John Fea   |  May 19, 2020

I am happy to see these local conversations taking place. Here is the Tampa Bay Times: On the fifth anniversary of an historic papal document about the environment and as the coronavirus continues to imperil the world, a panel of Catholic...

Does “End-Time Apathy” Explain Why So Many Evangelicals Don’t Care About the Environment?

John Fea   |  March 11, 2020

If Jesus is coming back at any moment to “rapture” his church, why should evangelicals care about the environment? As religious studies scholar Robin Globus Veldman writes, this theory has been “widely accepted” by environmentalists to explain evangelical apathy about...

What Will American Religious Historians Say About the 2010s?

John Fea   |  November 12, 2019

Over at The Anxious Bench, historian Philip Jenkins asks, “what will future scholars of Christianity highlight when they write the history of the 2010s?  What tremors reshaped the landscape of faith?” Here is part of Jenkins’s answer: I would start...

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