Abstract: Preachers attuned to the climate crisis have a vital role to play in fostering ecospiritual practices that can sustain communities in times of threat and catalyze action for change. This essay explores three vectors of spiritual formation beneficial for the healing of the planet: the practice of ecologically focused preaching, the development of an ethics of interspecies kinship, and the tending of networks for spiritual transformation. The essay describes the design and pedagogy of an eco-preaching course at Yale Divinity School, considers ways to foster interspecies kinship, and details a grant-funded initiative that supports eco-preaching and other ecospirituality programming.
Carolyn J. Sharp (Sun,) studied this question.