Angelique Walker-Smith
The Rev. Angelique Walker-Smith is executive director of the Church Federation of Greater Indianapolis, which has participated in the National Council of Churches’ Faith-based Climate and Energy Campaign.
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Web of Creation
The Web of Creation, an ecumenical site maintained by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, provides congregational resources on ecology and religion. Contact director David Rhoads.
Faith in Place
Faith in Place works with religious and spiritual leaders in Illinois on issues of environmental sustainability. It has offices in Chicago, Champaign and Waukegan, Ill.
National Religious Partnership for the Environment
The National Religious Partnership for the Environment is an alliance of major faith groups and denominations across the spectrum of Jewish and Christian communities and organizations in the United States. Its four founding partners are the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Evangelical Environmental Network, Creation Justice Ministries and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life.
“Are Your Palm Sunday Palms Bad for the Environment?”
Read a March 22, 2013, article from Slate Magazine about Palm Sunday traditions and the environment.
“Religions and Environmental Groups Work Together”
Read a Jan. 9, 2003, Associated Press story posted on beliefnet.com on how faith groups have addressed environmental issues in the United States and abroad.
“Guarding Nature”
Read a 2002 story by Elizabeth Kadetsky on beliefnet.com about Western and Eastern religious leaders’ increasing activism on environmental issues.
Godfrey Mullen
The Godfrey Mullen works on the Youth Liturgical Leadership Program offered by the Office of Vocational Development at the St. Meinrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Ind. The program works with high school and college students and sponsors “One Bread One Cup” conferences to bring Catholic teenagers to a deeper understanding of the liturgy.
Stephen Warner
Stephen Warner is professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was co-director of The Youth & Religion Project, funded by the Lilly Endowment. The first phase of that project involved talking to college students of different religious, ethnic and racial backgrounds about their experiences with their religions. A second phase involved […]