Jacob J. Erickson

Embodying a Sanctuary Imagination - Institute for Christian Socialism Embodying a sanctuary imagination means being accountable to those impacted by the anti-LGBTQ+ agenda of the Trump regime.

“Inclusion is not enough. The rhetoric of ‘all are welcome’ without an actual redistribution of power or risk is hollow. What is needed now is ‘co-conspiracy’” christiansocialism.com/2025/08/06/e...

Column | What if we need spiritual revival, not technology, to address climate change? Buddhism scholar Joanna Macy, who died this month, leaves behind a blueprint for overcoming climate despair and anxiety.

What if we need spiritual revival, not technology, to address climate change? www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Homebrewed Christianity Podcast: Jacob Erickson on Emerging Trends in Theology, Ethics, and Theological Education

www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/07/21/j...

Yehiel Curry Elected Presiding Bishop of the ELCA

Yehiel Curry Elected Presiding Bishop of the ELCA www.elca.org/news-and-eve...

Clinic for trans youth in LA closes, leaving some families struggling to find care One of the country's oldest and largest public providers of gender-affirming care is closing. The hospital says it can't stay open, given pressure from the Trump Administration.

Devastating. Clinic for trans youth in LA closes, leaving some families struggling to find care www.npr.org/2025/07/22/n...

Classic, rich villains lead fake witch-hunts while stealing from the poor.

Big, brutal bankruptcy.

Homebrewed Christianity Podcast: Jacob Erickson on Emerging Trends in Theology, Ethics, and Theological Education

www.homebrewedchristianty.com/2025/07/21/j...

Brittany Shyne on Her Doc ‘Seeds’ and Paying Homage to the Legacy of Black Farmers in the American South Brittany Shyne on the legacy of Black farmers in her Sundance doc ‘Seeds’

Brittany Shyne on Her Doc ‘Seeds’ and Paying Homage to the Legacy of Black Farmers in the American South variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Opinion | The Last Words of a Dying Glacier

The Last Words of a Dying Glacier www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/o...

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I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza | Jad Salfiti Rightwingers in Israel and the US claim they are defending LGBTQ+ rights while Gaza’s people are killed. Don’t dare do this in our name, says British-Palestinian video producer and journalist Jad Salf...

I’m a queer Palestinian. Stop using my identity as cover for the destruction of Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground

Ancient Trees, Dwindling in the Wild, Thrive on Sacred Ground www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/s...

Faith in the Ocean: An International Multifaith Global Commitment to Ocean Protection fore.yale.edu/news/Faith-i...

“The current structure of the university is exquisitely designed to foment working-class resentments among those who know their kids need to go to college but can't afford the exorbitant bill to do so.”

What Must Universities Become Today in Face of Trump? | Common Dreams In sliding too close to the regime that now attacks them, too many universities have lost much of the leverage needed to marshal wider public support for their most noble agendas.

“[F]aculties, students, and ecologists must demand that more teaching and research resources be devoted to studying the dangers radical climate wreckage poses to life in so many regimes today.” www.commondreams.org/opinion/univ...

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A student faces ahead in the Trinity Long Room, Library. The room is tall, with a curved ceiling, and lined with two floors of alcoves filled with shelves of old books. A line of 10+ pedestals go down each side of the room with marble statues of famous thinkers on top. The student is considering their future, perhaps, and the text on the image gives details for the webinar, with the words “When theology meets justice, hope meets action.”

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Join us on Wednesday 21st May at 18:00 (Dublin time; 1pm Eastern US/12pm Central Standard Time) for a webinar about the 𝐌𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 & 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞 𝐃𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧.

Engage the most critical issues of our time:

tcd-ie.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The first American pope? This cardinal has the best chance of making history in this conclave It is typically absurd to think of an American as pope. But in this conclave, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who has spent much of his life outside of the United States is worthy of serious consider...

“The first [North] American Pope?” www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...

Opinion | How to Make Spring Safer for Wildlife (Gift Article) I wish everyone would slow down. The least we can do is to give our wild neighbors time to cross the roads we have built through the middle of their homes.

We aren’t entirely powerless in the face of this destruction, but until we find the political will to fight for what we love, and to hold our elected officials to account, the very least we can do is to protect the nearby wildlife we have the power to protect.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/o...

The Connection Between Faith and Environmental Action

The Connection Between Faith and Environmental Action www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/c...

Opinion | Climate Change Urgency Has Declined. The Green Transition Hasn’t. The state of the climate, Part II.

Climate Change Urgency Has Declined. The Green Transition Hasn’t www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling t...

“the wheels of the Vatican continued to turn. Local churches continued to function. And, disgracefully, many Catholic women, LGBTQIA+ people, and those abused by clergy continued to be marginalized.” religiondispatches.org/what-the-rom...

Visit from the neighbor.

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore Day—go out and support your local!

Hello—Is A River Alive? is out a week today, on 1 May.
I went to Clays the printer to see how my books are made (many marvellous machines!) & to sign 3000 special editions.
Here’s what happened in 40 seconds.
Here are the indie bookshops who have the specials for pre-order: linktr.ee/Is_A_River_A...

Ecological Conversion – Paul Elie In revisiting Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical, Paul Elie considers how religion and the natural world are coming together for a shared renewal.

ECOLOGICAL CONVERSION

by Paul Elie emergencemagazine.org/essay/ecolog...

Christianity Was Always for the Poor From the Sermon on the Mount through the Apostolic Age, the first Christians preached against wealth.

Christianity Was Always for the Poor by David Bentley Hart jacobin.com/2024/03/chri...

Opinion | The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change The state of the climate future, Part I.

The World Seems to Be Surrendering to Climate Change, David Wallace-Wells www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...

Pope Francis and the Sun Perhaps the world's greatest environmental champion is dead

Pope Francis and the Sun:
Perhaps the world's greatest environmental champion is dead
BILL MCKIBBEN

billmckibben.substack.com/p/pope-franc...

Indiana Evangelicals Are Focusing on Creation Care With Environmental Work A cluster of evangelical groups in the state is pushing for environmental action. Leaders say they’re following the biblical mandate to care for creation.

In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...