The Rev. David M. Rhoads is a professor emeritus of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is the editor of a collection of sermons called Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet and director of the Green Congregation Program, which works to help Lutheran congregations in the Midwest become […]

A Jan. 9, 2009, story from the Modesto Bee explains how the split over conservative and liberal sections of the Presbyterian church is amicable, compared to Episcopalians.

Rabbi Arthur Waskow is a Reconstructionist rabbi who is director of the Shalom Center, which promotes activism and education around Jewish environmentalism. He is the author of Down-to-Earth Judaism: Food, Money, Sex and the Rest of Life. Read his essay “Passover as if Earth Really Matters” in the April 2008 online edition of The Nation.

The Rev. Peter Colapietro is pastor at St. Malachy’s Catholic Church in New York City. The church calls itself “the actors’ chapel” and ministers to a large number of actors who live and work in New York City.

The Rev. Kurt C. Wiesner is an Episcopal priest in Littleton, N.H., and author of the blog One Step Closer: Religion & Popular Culture. See his blog entry after the death of Michael Jackson.

The Rev. Louis P. Sheldon is chairman of the Traditional Values Coalition and one of the most recognizable names of the religious right.

The Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III is the priest-in-charge at Trinity Church in Boston, an Episcopal church. He was the ninth dean of the Washington National Cathedral, and he preached from the cathedral’s pulpit about global warming and the need for Christians to act. Email him through the contact form on Trinity Church’s website.

Edward Brown is the founding director of Care of Creation, a Christian environmental mission agency based in Madison, Wis. He is the author of Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation.

The Center for the Study of Religion and Sexuality is a part of Columbia University’s Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality; the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life; and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. It is in place to provide forums and resources in a world where intersections of sexuality and religion […]