Fire:

Fire signifies transformation, righteous anger and passion, and reckoning with the injustices and impacts of climate change, including our grief. (See also climate justice worship resources for water, air, and earth.)

Readings

• “Why Not Be Changed Into Fire?”
• “Breathing Space (Fire)” by Judy Brown
• “Questo Muro” by Anita Barrows
• “More than 1,000 Dead Birds Fall from the Sky in Arkansas” by Leah Browning
• “On Killing a Tree” by Giev Patel
• “Blessing When the World is Ending” by Jan Richardson
• “The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
• “The Return of Earth / She” by Christopher Sims
• “Between the Fires” by Arthur Waskow
• “Earthquake” by Marta I. Valentin
• “Poem in a Time of Peril” by Barbara Rohde
• “Fossil Fuel” by John Dickson
• “Earth” by Mark Belletini
• “Vanishing Song Birds” by Stephen M. Shick

Inspiration

• “God’s Earth is a Wild and Difficult Place” by Peggy Clarke
• “The Miraculous Pitcher” by Barbara Rohde

Prayers

• “Lamentation (Lamentación)” by Peter Morales

Stories for All Ages

• The Earth Has Caught a Cold by Roxane Marie Galliez
• How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate by Lynne Cherry and Gary Braasch

Songs

• The Fire of Commitment (#1028)**
• Tho I May Speak With Bravest Fire (#31)*
• Come Come Whoever You Are (#188)*

*From the hymnal Singing the Living Tradition

**From the hymnal Singing the Journey