The Green Good News Works with churches, colleges, seminaries, and community and denominational organizations on a wide array of initiatives. We would be happy to talk with you about teaching a class, giving a talk or a sermon, or working with you on a curriculum or project.
Teachers AND ORGANIZERS:
Rev. Dr. Wilson Dickinson
T. Wilson Dickinson is a theologian, minister, and organizer whose work takes place at the intersection of constructive theology, environmental justice, and social change. He is director of the Green Good News and teaches theology and is the Director of the Doctor of Ministry and Continuing Education Programs at Lexington Theological Seminary.
His first book, Exercises in New Creation from Paul to Kierkegaard, articulates a vision for philosophical theology around the practices of the care of the self, the city, and creation. His second book, The Green Good News: Christ’s Path to Sustainable and Joyful Life, is an environmental justice reading of the Gospels that is written to bridge church, scholarly, and activist audiences. His third book, Singing the Psalms with My Son: Spiritual Exercises for Climate Crisis, is a collection of theological mediations that look to the Psalms and the practices of parenting as refuge, hope, and transformation in the face of climate change. He is currently working on an academic monograph on Christ and the Commons: Transatlantic Theologies of Cooperation, Care, and Liberation.
He works with churches, colleges, seminaries, and community organizations on issues of food justice, environmental justice, sustainability, and joyful and just living. He is also involved in building wider movements to cultivate and connect the Christian food movement, climate justice networks, and the Christian Left. He is chair of the Christ Seminar, a project on Christologies of the People with the Westar Institute, and co-chair of the Social Gospel in the South Working Group with the Wendland Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University.
Rev. Dr. Leah D. Schade
is the Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky. An ordained minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since 2000, Leah has served congregations in rural, urban, and suburban settings. She earned both her MDiv and PhD degrees from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (now United Lutheran Seminary) and wrote her dissertation on preaching and environmental issues. Leah has served as an anti-fracking and climate activist, community organizer, and advocate for numerous environmental and social justice issues. Her newest book co-edited with Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in a Time of Climate Crisis, contains essays from a cross-section of faith leaders and activists offering their spiritual wisdom for facing the difficult days ahead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). Leah is also the “EcoPreacher” blogger for Patheos.
Publications:
Creation-Crisis Preaching: Ecology, Theology, and the Pulpit (Chalice Press, 2015)
Rooted and Rising: Voices of Courage in the Time of Climate Crisis, co-edited with Margaret Bullitt-Jonas (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
Preaching in the Purple Zone: Ministry in the Red-Blue Divide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
For the Beauty of the Earth: Lenten Devotional (Chalice Press, 2020)
Rev. Carol Devine
is a full time minister at Providence Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Kentucky and since 2011 has led the creation care ministry for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Green Chalice. Carol serves on the executive board of Creation Justice Ministries and convenes the Creation Care committee of the Justice Committee of the Kentucky Council of Churches. Carol holds partnerships as very important and works with KY Interfaith Power and Light and has worked in the past with Green Faith and National Religious Partners for the Environment.
Sean Gladding
is a pastor, author and speaker. His passion is (re)introducing people to the narrative of the bible, which invites us to partner with the Creator in working together for a world in which all of life can flourish. He speaks regularly at churches, colleges, seminaries and retreats on the metanarrative of scripture; creation care; missional community; and what the church has to learn from Alcoholics Anonymous. His family live, love, work and grow food in the Martin Luther Kingdom Jr neighborhood of Lexington, Kentucky. They are founding members of the Fig Tree Collective. Sean’s two published books are The Story of God, the Story of Us (IVP, 2010) and TEN: Words of Life for an Addicted, Compulsive, Cynical, Divided and Worn-Out Culture (IVP, 2014).