In all major religions there is an ethic of creation care. This page offers preaching, teaching and thinking resources from different religious traditions on the subject of caring for creation. We hope you and your religious community will find it helpful. Please contact Katrina with links to other resources you'd like to see here; we will be happy to add more links, including more religious traditions, to this page.
Interfaith Resources
- To Mend the World: A Justice Framework for Creation Care, a publication from Texas Interfaith Power & Light
- Prayers, Poetry & Other Worship Resources, from Interfaith Power & Light
- Religious Teachings on the Environment, from GreenFaith
Jewish Resources
- Jewish Perspectives and Resources, from the Jewish Climate Change Campaign
- Torah Commentary, listed by Parsha, from Canfei Nesharim
Christian Resources
- Downloadable resources, from Creation Justice Ministries
- On Care for Our Common Home, from Pope Francis' Laudato Si'
- Time for Creation, from the World Council of Churches
Muslim Resources
- Downloadable resources, from The Islamic Foundation for Ecology and Environmental Sciences
- Islamic Declaration on Global Climate Change, from International Islamic Climate Change Symposium Istanbul 2015
- Islam and the environment, from the Interfaith Environmental Network of Austin
Buddhist Resources
- Wisdom, from Ecological Buddhism, A Buddhist Response to Global Warming
General Guides and Reflections on Environmental Justice & Preaching
- Interfaith Preach-Off on Climate Change, from the Interfaith Environmental Network of Austin
- Sample sermons, from Interfaith Power & Light
- Three Layers of Environmental Preaching, by Rev. Peter Sawtell, Executive Director, Eco-Justice Ministries
- Principles of Environmental Justice, from The First People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, 1991
- Principles of Climate Justice, from the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum
- Bali Principles of Climate Justice, from the International Climate Justice Network Earth Summit, 2002