The BTS Center

Part 2 of Murmurations: Fall 2025 is here! Chaplains and spiritual care providers, this is an offering for you.

In this installation, you'll learn about one spiritual care provider's vocation – a meeting place of "I want to" and "I need to."

Find parts 1 + 2 here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...

TOMORROW, @StellarStory Company is putting on an invaluable storytelling workshop. Heart-change work often hinges on the immeasurable grace and challenge of storytelling.

Come to polish the gift for your story for the love of the human & beyond-human world.

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The BTS Center’s Board and Staff Gather | The BTS Center Written by Allen Ewing-Merrill

Executive Director Rev. Dr. Allen Ewing-Merrill reflects on The BTS Center's recent board & staff retreat. "...top of mind for each of us was you — the courageous, creative, wise, and faithful people who comprise the wider BTS Center community..."

Read on: thebtscenter.org/the-bts-cent...

Ours is a climate changed world.

"[W]e are being forced to adapt to new conditions on a climate-altered planet. Many already are, especially the most vulnerable among us."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

quote by cheryl: “Your story has permission to be told. Some people are anxious about centering themselves in a story; it raises questions about ego and importance. However, storytelling is about connection, inviting people to come up to you and say, ‘Hey, I’ve felt the same way’ or ’tell me more. I am curious.’”

In you are stories of encounter and transformation with the beyond-human world. This Thursday, learn to hone those stories for impact with Cheryl Hamilton of Stellar Story Company offering valuable coaching and a container for community.

Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/storyt...

(Re)building Relationships: Good Medicine for the Climate Crisis | The BTS Center As spiritual care providers, you’re invited to a discussion with justice advocates and social scientists Joshua Moses and Sarah Jaquette Ray.

Come to hear what constitutes good medicine to help support a spiritual and ethical life characterized by connection.

Register for FREE here: thebtscenter.org/bts-cil-2025/

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #spiritualcare #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #chaplaincy

Spiritual care providers: you’re invited to a discussion with justice advocates and social scientists Sarah Jaquette Ray & Joshua Moses.

Anxiety is fraying our social infrastructure: friendships, work, school, and community.

"Bad Future, Better Future" is a NYT digital storybook that puts into perspective the reality of our climate changed world as well as a future that could come into being if we muster the spiritual courage.

Read the article here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Bad Future, Better Future" is a NYT digital storybook that puts into perspective the reality of our climate changed world as well as a future that could come into being if we muster the spiritual courage.

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#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #Interconnectedness

This week, we published the first of four parts of our quarterly Murmurations newsletter for spiritual care providers. Climate Chaplain Gabrielle Gelderman talks to us about how activism has informed her chaplaincy – and more.

If you missed it, you can read it here: thebtscenter.org/relationalit...

Last chance to register for today's workshop with Grist, the foremost climate newsroom in the U.S.! 1-4pm ET. Scholarships are available if finances are a barrier to participation: thebtscenter.org/visioning-be...

A vision for the year 2150: children become earth keepers by rite: coming-of-age ceremonies include ecological stewardship training – healing land, water, and community as sacred initiation.

What is the thrive-able climate vision living rent-free in your soul? Or perhaps you don't have one yet...

This week, the 2025-2026 cohort of Navigating Climate Spiritual Care began their 6mo learning journey. Together, they're honing their spiritual capacity + skills to respond to human needs in a climate-changed world.

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology

Calling all preachers: Grist, the foremost #climate-focused newsroom in the U.S., is teaming up with The BTS Center and our EcoPreacher partners to bring you a workshop that will hone your craft and renew your spirit.

Space is limited, so register now to hold your spot: bit.ly/visioning-gr...

We know that it's no small task to advocate for eco-social justice from your pulpits – to sustain and deepen people's love of creation. Our board and staff are in solidarity with you.

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth

The BTS Center board and staff spent 2.5 days together. We're blessed beyond measure to have the guidance and leadership of such a group of individuals.

This moment calls us to courage and connection.

#ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #Interconnectedness #LoveTheEarth #Regeneration #ClimateHope #TogetherForOurPlanet

Of note: the United States has sent no federal leadership aligned with the current regime. The many of us who reside in the U.S. may more easily see now that the vanguard of human response to climate change lies elsewhere.

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate

Human political leaders are meeting in #Bélem, Brazil, for #COP30 (the 30th Conference of Parties) for the United Nations' annual meeting to address climate change. May these powerful individuals be led by courage, wisdom, and an abiding loyalty to interconnected life.

The BTS Center's board & staff have traveled from across the U.S. to be together this week, deliberating with prayer and thoughtfulness how we can be the best partner we can be to spiritual leaders navigating a climate changed world.

Deeply grateful for this wisdom, commitment, & compassion.

– herons, wind, soil microbes, aspens, and so much more. With whom are you sharing your life today?

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EnvironmentalJustice #Interconnectedness #LoveTheEarth

Last night's conversation with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Leah Penniman, accompanied by the music of Reggie Harris, was a tremendous affirmation of life, planet, and connection.

Participants shared gratitude for the ways they encountered the beyond-human world that day –

Come hear the beautiful music of folk guitarist & storyteller Reggie Harris. Hope will abound, and you'll be glad you came by.

Register here: thebtscenter.org/event/vision...
#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #FaithAndClimate #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #ClimateAction

What is your climate action? And how do we carry in the most precious gifts we have: our joy, our communities, our delight, our awe and beliefs?

TODAY, you can still register for @ayanaeliza Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's conversation with Leah Penniman – regenerative farmer & food justice activist.

We applaud Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, who was just honored with the @TIME 100 Earth Award winner!

You can come by tomorrow to hear Dr. Johnson in conversation with Leah Penniman – food justice activist and regenerative farmer. Register: thebtscenter.org/event/vision... #ClimateJustice

Laudato Si’: Vision and Reality Ten Years Later (In-Person and Virtual Event) “What [we] need is an ecological conversion, whereby the effects of [our] encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in [our] relationship with the world around [us]. Living our vocation to be…

Register here: cranaleith.org/programs/232...

Cranaleith Spiritual Center is hosting a hybrid live-virtual panel discussion, "Laudato Sí: VIsion and Reality Ten Years Later." The panel will reflect on Laudato Sí's far-reaching impact, explore the urgent work still before us, and consider how Pope Francis’ vision remains a guiding light today...

"We might at this psychic depth find ourselves initiated into a deeper way of being human."

From "The Salmon in the Spring: The Ecology of Celtic Spirituality" by Jason Kirkey

#ClimateJustice #ecospirituality #CreationCare #SpiritualEcology #EarthWisdom #SacredEarth #samhain #halloween

"In Samhain what we find is ultimately not an initiation into an Otherworld but an initiation into a deeper perception of this world, in which we are not merely beings fractured from the universe which birthed us but a living and participatory dimension of that cosmos.