The Rev. Ahriana Platten is founder and director of the Colorado EcoSpiritual Center in Colorado Springs. The center provides training and other resources that foster reverence for the Earth and its inhabitants. People of all beliefs and lifestyles are welcomed.

Lorrie Heber is director of the White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. The center fosters “the preservation, restoration and reverent use of all natural resources” and offers workshops, “Earth Sabbaticals” and other events.

Sister Linda Neil is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet and is based in the order’s Albany, N.Y., province. Neil, who has master’s degrees in Earth literacy and in religious studies, teaches a workshop series titled “Encountering Earth: Reclaiming the Human in the Web of Life,” designed to help participants become […]

Read an Oct. 16, 2013, story from the Associated Baptist Press about increased interest among Christians in making sure their food choices and ministries reflect concern for the poor and the environment.

Read a Dec. 17, 2013, National Catholic Reporter interview with Fred Bahnson, director of the Food, Faith and Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity.

Fred Bahnson is director of the Food, Faith & Religious Leadership Initiative at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, N.C. He co-founded a church-supported agriculture ministry in Cedar Grove, N.C., in 2005 and has taught regenerative agriculture for many years. Bahnson is the author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and […]

Read the transcript of an Aug. 14, 2009, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly story on families who are using bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies that inculcate environmental values.

Jonathan Merritt writes and speaks extensively on faith and culture and is a senior columnist for Religion News Service. Merritt’s books include A Faith of Our Own: Following Jesus Beyond the Culture Wars and Jesus Is Better Than You Imagined. He can discuss the viewpoints and concerns of young evangelicals on a range of issues, especially on […]

Read a March 19, 2013, Religion News Service story about Pope Francis’ inaugural Mass. Among other things, he called for people in positions of power to be “protectors of creation, protectors of God’s plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment.”