Christmas 2024: The Meek Are Getting Ready

...Are the meek getting ready? Everything in our day suggests that, if they are, they’re going to have a tough time. Ours is the era of the rank suppression and dispersal of the meek by the Strong Men. The Christmas Gospel, in marked contrast, is about the emergent power of the meekest of all: the strange promise of a certain baby, born in a peasant’s stable, who would become a constant threat to all the Herods of this world...

Finis and Telos: My Just-Out Earth Book in the Age of Trump

When my two kids were in their grammar school years, each of them would sometimes say, “Daddy, you talk funny.” True. I still do. Consider this. My new book is the end – the finis and the telos – of my vocation as a Church theologian and pastoral activist...

The Earth and the Fullness Thereof: A Down-Home Reader in Ecological Theology

Written for those at the front lines of discipleship in this era of planetary emergency, especially for those who sometimes feel spiritually isolated or exhausted. This engaging first-person narrative will appeal both to faith-based ecoactivist of long standing and to those who are pondering this calling for the first time.

Amerika?

Is Amerika our future, then, emerging now right before our very eyes? And, if so, has the time arrived for American Christians to find ways to be a Confessing Church, the way Dietrich Bonhoeffer and many other believers did in the Germany of the nineteen-thirties-and-forties of the last century?

EcoActivist Testament Book Discussion Group

Author of EcoActivist Testament: Faith Explorations for Fellow Travellers discusses his book. Continue the conversation with others weekly.

Lutherans Restoring Creation - Gulf Coast

Praying All the Time?

The Rev. Dr. H. Paul Santmire is a historian and pastoral scholar in the disciplines of ecological theology, environmental ethics, and Christian liturgy and spirituality.