Worship is a key way for a spiritual community to collectively hold the pain of environmental injustice and climate change, our faith that another world is possible, and our commitment to working toward that world. Below you’ll find some of UU Ministry for Earth’s favorite sermons on environmental justice topics to help inspire you. More sermons are available in the UUMFE publication Honoring Earth: A Worship Resource (PDF).
Climate Change
- A Collective Ritual for Climate Change, Day Schildkret and Jessica Neafsey
- This is Not a Drill: A Global Call to Strike for the Climate Rev. Karen G. Johnston, Minister, The Unitarian Society, A Unitarian Universalist Congregation, East Brunswick, NJ
YouTube version from Extinction Rebellion - Doom & Gloom: Reflections on Climate Grief Rev. Karen G. Johnston, Minister, The Unitarian Society, A Unitarian Universalist Congregation, East Brunswick, NJ
- How to Survive the End of the World, Rev. Molly Housh Gordon, Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, MO (A Climate Strike Sermon)
- Truth Telling and Movement Building in the Climate Crisis (PDF), Cindy Davidson (UUMFE 2017 Earth Day Sermon)
- The Moral Demands of Climate Change (PDF), Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell (UUMFE 2016 Earth Day Sermon)
- Shifting Energy: From Fossil Fuels To Climate Action (PDF), Rev. Matthew McHale (UUMFE 2015 Earth Day Sermon)
- Obedience to Oppression = Climate Injustice, Zarna (part of the UU Young Adults for Climate Justice 100 Sermons campaign)
- Hope in an Age of Ecological Despair (PDF), Rev. Heather Concannon (part of the 100 Sermons campaign)
- Not Waiting for a Miracle, Rev. Jennifer Channin (part of the 100 Sermons campaign)
- Mark 8:27-38 and Climate Justice, Ariel Aaronson-Eves (part of the 100 Sermons campaign)
- Raucous but Reverent, Tim DeChristopher and Murtaza Nek (part of the 100 Sermons campaign)
- Have you Heard the Good News About Climate Change? (PDF), John Atcheson
- Slow Violence: What Climate Change Really Is (PDF), Robert Keim
- 24 Hours: 350 Inspirations (PDF), Rev. Alice Anacheka-Nasemann
- The Comforting Whirlwind: God and the Environmental Crisis (PDF), Bill McKibben
- Is there a Pathway to a Sustainable Climate and Energy Future? (PDF), Jeffrey I. Steinfeld
Green Sanctuary
- Green Sanctuary: An Environmental Challenge for UU Congregations (PDF), Rev. Fred Small
- Green Sanctuary (PDF), Rev. Ann Marie Alderman
- Eco-Spirituality for Liberal Religious Communities (PDF), David Cockrell
Water Justice
- Water: The Sacred Well (PDF), Allan J. Lindrup
Indigenous Rights
- Discovering Climate Justice, Aly Tharp (part of the UU Young Adults for Climate Justice 100 Sermons campaign)
- This Land Is Your Land?, Colin Bossen (text version)
Ecology
- The Land Ethic – A Fierce Green Fire (PDF), Robert Keim
Earth Spirituality
- Earth Spirituality Is a Many Splendored Thing (PDF), Steve Maier
- Reverence for Life (PDF), Steve Maier
- The Body of God (PDF), Rev. Ann Marie Alderman
- Tree of Life (PDF), Leslie Pohl-Kosbau
- Wake Now, My Senses (PDF), Rev. Fred Small
- Simple in Means, Rich in Ends (PDF), Robert Keim
Food Justice
- Have Your Earth and Eat It Too, Christopher Watkins Lamb (part of the UU Young Adults for Climate Justice 100 Sermons campaign)
- Eating Our Way through the Interdependent Web: An Ethic of Food for Unitarian Universalists (PDF), Rev. Charlotte Shivvers
Earth Day
- Earth Day Celebration, Tim DeChristopher (part of the UU Young Adults for Climate Justice 100 Sermons campaign)