H. Paul Santmire
@hpaulsantmire.bsky.social
ecotheologian, scholar, pastoral activist
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The End of Our Lawns?
I grew up in an exurban setting, where as a boy I had to learn how to mow lawns. In those days, we pushed hand mowers. Nobody thought much about it. The grass was just there to mow. Such praxis is sti...
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New post on my Walking Thoughts blog "The End of our Lawns?"
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog "The End of our Lawns?"
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
The End of Our Lawns?
I grew up in an exurban setting, where as a boy I had to learn how to mow lawns. In those days, we pushed hand mowers. Nobody thought much about it. The grass was just there to mow. Such praxis is sti...
hpaulsantmire.net
October 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog "The End of our Lawns?"
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
"...I credit lawn mowing with helping me to get through my seminary years..."
Read it here: hpaulsantmire.net/the-end-of-o...
Thank you to @kevinjamesobrien.bsky.social for this excellent piece in Living Lutheran. "'Caring for Creation' also insists that climate change and other environmental problems are about justice..." Read it here: www.livinglutheran.org/2025/03/the-... @lutheransrc.bsky.social
The ELCA's call to "Care for Creation" - Living Lutheran
The ELCA’s social statement "Caring for Creation" can motivate and equip us to think and talk together about climate change.
www.livinglutheran.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thank you to @kevinjamesobrien.bsky.social for this excellent piece in Living Lutheran. "'Caring for Creation' also insists that climate change and other environmental problems are about justice..." Read it here: www.livinglutheran.org/2025/03/the-... @lutheransrc.bsky.social
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We’re counting down the days—just one month until #AARSBL in Boston! Are you preparing a book proposal or exploring publishing opportunities? We’d love to connect, learn about your work, and discuss how we can partner in advancing scholarship.
🔗 www.fortresspress.com/aar-sbl/
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October 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We’re counting down the days—just one month until #AARSBL in Boston! Are you preparing a book proposal or exploring publishing opportunities? We’d love to connect, learn about your work, and discuss how we can partner in advancing scholarship.
🔗 www.fortresspress.com/aar-sbl/
🔗 www.fortresspress.com/aar-sbl/
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What do you want to see Multiply? Lutherans (who are) Restoring Creation Gather: Jan 23-25th, 2026 Lutheridge Camp in Arden, North Carolina
#ELCA #LutheransRestoringCreation #CreationCare #EcoJustice @elcalutherans.bsky.social
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#ELCA #LutheransRestoringCreation #CreationCare #EcoJustice @elcalutherans.bsky.social
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Lutherans (who are) Restoring Creation Gather:
Calling all ELCA creation care leaders who want be in community, revitalize their organizing and take creation JOY back to their home network!
lutheransrestoringcreation.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
What do you want to see Multiply? Lutherans (who are) Restoring Creation Gather: Jan 23-25th, 2026 Lutheridge Camp in Arden, North Carolina
#ELCA #LutheransRestoringCreation #CreationCare #EcoJustice @elcalutherans.bsky.social
lutheransrestoringcreation.org/2026-lrc-gat...
#ELCA #LutheransRestoringCreation #CreationCare #EcoJustice @elcalutherans.bsky.social
lutheransrestoringcreation.org/2026-lrc-gat...
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Want to learn how to help tackle the climate crisis and contribute to a sustainable, just world via impactful climate solutions (which begin by using your voice to call for change)? This 4-week course by @universityofleeds.bsky.social is free! Sign up now ⬇️
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May 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Want to learn how to help tackle the climate crisis and contribute to a sustainable, just world via impactful climate solutions (which begin by using your voice to call for change)? This 4-week course by @universityofleeds.bsky.social is free! Sign up now ⬇️
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Refugia Newsletter AND Refugia Podcast! My latest newsletter has exclusive video of PUFFINS! And the podcast so far in Season 4 features terrific guests: Heber Brown III, Douglas Day Kaufman, David Celesky, and Judy Hinck. More to come!
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Refugia Newsletter | Debra Rienstra | Substack
A fortnightly newsletter for people of faith who care about the climate crisis and want to go deeper. Click to read Refugia Newsletter, by Debra Rienstra, a Substack publication with thousands of subs...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Refugia Newsletter AND Refugia Podcast! My latest newsletter has exclusive video of PUFFINS! And the podcast so far in Season 4 features terrific guests: Heber Brown III, Douglas Day Kaufman, David Celesky, and Judy Hinck. More to come!
refugianewsletter.substack.com
refugianewsletter.substack.com
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog, "Encountering Nature And God – As Triune?" hpaulsantmire.net/encountering... Great thanks to artist Eric Aho ericaho.com
Encountering Nature And God – As Triune?
I have lately been driven spiritually to celebrate nature and God as triune, once again. I sometimes think of this as a higher synthesis of the worldviews of Henry David Thoreau and Karl Barth, two vi...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog, "Encountering Nature And God – As Triune?" hpaulsantmire.net/encountering... Great thanks to artist Eric Aho ericaho.com
Compelling connection between faith and activism www.earthday.org/how-my-catho... @earthdayorg.bsky.social #EarthDay #Faith
How My Catholic Education Made Me A Climate Activist - Earth Day
A Catholic upbringing, St. Francis’s legacy, and Pope Francis’s teachings shaped my climate activism — revealing care for creation as a core act of faith.
www.earthday.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Compelling connection between faith and activism www.earthday.org/how-my-catho... @earthdayorg.bsky.social #EarthDay #Faith
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September 30, "Building a Moral Economy" An online conversation with Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobedo 5pm PT/8pm ET bit.ly/moral-economy hosted in partnership with Creation Justice Ministries, the Center for Climate Justice and Faith, and Blessed Tomorrow
September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
September 30, "Building a Moral Economy" An online conversation with Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobedo 5pm PT/8pm ET bit.ly/moral-economy hosted in partnership with Creation Justice Ministries, the Center for Climate Justice and Faith, and Blessed Tomorrow
"...producing enough food to sustain the global population while preserving critically important ecosystems is increasingly difficult…in the last fifteen years, vertical farming has emerged as a promising alternative to [many] current farming practices..." www.earthday.org/skyscraper-c...
Skyscraper Crops Are Changing the World - Earth Day
Vertical farming could be the future of agriculture that’s better for us and the Earth.
www.earthday.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"...producing enough food to sustain the global population while preserving critically important ecosystems is increasingly difficult…in the last fifteen years, vertical farming has emerged as a promising alternative to [many] current farming practices..." www.earthday.org/skyscraper-c...
Celebrating SunDay with @thirdactfaith.bsky.social, a new post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/a-boring-fol... @elcalutherans.bsky.social @lutheransrc.bsky.social
A Boring Follower of Jesus on SunDay?
A spell of ecojustice excitement is already rising in my heart. SunDay, September 21, is going to be a great day for the good olde U.S. of A!
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September 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Celebrating SunDay with @thirdactfaith.bsky.social, a new post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/a-boring-fol... @elcalutherans.bsky.social @lutheransrc.bsky.social
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "When I first started preaching, two of my congregants were internationally known New Testament scholars, Krister Stendahl and Helmut Koester. It scared the exegesis out of me..." hpaulsantmire.net/one-rule-for...
One Rule for Preaching?
When I first started preaching, two of my congregants were internationally known New Testament scholars, Krister Stendahl and Helmut Koester. It scared the exegesis out of me. But they knew how egregi...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "When I first started preaching, two of my congregants were internationally known New Testament scholars, Krister Stendahl and Helmut Koester. It scared the exegesis out of me..." hpaulsantmire.net/one-rule-for...
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🌿 Discover how to create a Spirituality in Nature Group (SING) in your community! This workshop will inspire connection, practice, and care for Creation.
🌱Spirituality in Nature Group Leadership Training
📅September 13, 1 - 4pm ET, Online
Learn more and sign up at: bit.ly/sing-25
🌱Spirituality in Nature Group Leadership Training
📅September 13, 1 - 4pm ET, Online
Learn more and sign up at: bit.ly/sing-25
Start SINGing: Spirituality in Nature Group Leaders’ Training | CtrforSpiritinNature
Spirituality in Nature Groups are wonderful outlets for community building, deepening spiritual engagement, and connecting deeply with the natural world. Join us for a detailed, accessible workshop on...
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August 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🌿 Discover how to create a Spirituality in Nature Group (SING) in your community! This workshop will inspire connection, practice, and care for Creation.
🌱Spirituality in Nature Group Leadership Training
📅September 13, 1 - 4pm ET, Online
Learn more and sign up at: bit.ly/sing-25
🌱Spirituality in Nature Group Leadership Training
📅September 13, 1 - 4pm ET, Online
Learn more and sign up at: bit.ly/sing-25
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🍃We're one week away!
The Season of Creation runs from Sept 1-Oct 4; how your church is recognizing this special time. Share your photos and stories with us!
Find ideas here: bit.ly/CreationSeason #SeasonOfCreation
The Season of Creation runs from Sept 1-Oct 4; how your church is recognizing this special time. Share your photos and stories with us!
Find ideas here: bit.ly/CreationSeason #SeasonOfCreation
Season of Creation: Focusing Worship on God as Creator
The Season of Creation is typically celebrated from the beginning of September until St. Francis of Assisi Day. We offer creation focused commentaries for every week and lectionary cycle, but what abo...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🍃We're one week away!
The Season of Creation runs from Sept 1-Oct 4; how your church is recognizing this special time. Share your photos and stories with us!
Find ideas here: bit.ly/CreationSeason #SeasonOfCreation
The Season of Creation runs from Sept 1-Oct 4; how your church is recognizing this special time. Share your photos and stories with us!
Find ideas here: bit.ly/CreationSeason #SeasonOfCreation
Opinion | The New American Inequality: The Cooled vs. the Cooked
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit | AAR Annual Meeting
papers.aarweb.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
Let the sun shine in: Kudos! "Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome...into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs...the world’s first carbon-neutral state." apnews.com/article/pope...
Pope prays for world to recognize urgency of climate crisis as he celebrates Mass' using new rite
Pope Leo XIV is praying for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor.”
apnews.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Let the sun shine in: Kudos! "Italy agreed Thursday to a Vatican plan to turn a 430-hectare (1,000-acre) field north of Rome...into a vast solar farm that the Holy See hopes will generate enough electricity to meet its needs...the world’s first carbon-neutral state." apnews.com/article/pope...
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Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25
"I would like to think that, at least on some occasions, my awareness of my own color-blindness, has made me a better theologian..." New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/maximize-the...
Maximize the Inevitable?
For reasons that I cannot fully understand, I sometimes find myself claimed by the maxim of Charles De Gaulle: maximize the inevitable. A case in point: I sometimes feel that a minor disability of min...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"I would like to think that, at least on some occasions, my awareness of my own color-blindness, has made me a better theologian..." New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: hpaulsantmire.net/maximize-the...
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "I began my public theological vocation with my first book, Brother Earth (1970), by calling for a new theology of nature. I ended that book by discussing Jesus and the earth; and more, Jesus and the whole cosmos..." hpaulsantmire.net/jesus-and-ma...
Jesus and Maximo
I began my public theological vocation with my first book, Brother Earth (1970), by calling for a new theology of nature. I ended that book by discussing Jesus and the earth; and more, Jesus and the w...
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August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New post on my Walking Thoughts blog: "I began my public theological vocation with my first book, Brother Earth (1970), by calling for a new theology of nature. I ended that book by discussing Jesus and the earth; and more, Jesus and the whole cosmos..." hpaulsantmire.net/jesus-and-ma...
Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25
August 5, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Including a call for papers, if you or someone you know might be interested (see #1): papers.aarweb.org/group/14944 #AARSBL25
I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit | AAR Annual Meeting
papers.aarweb.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I'm honored to share that on Nov 22 from 9-11am at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion there will be a roundtable session entitled "The Eco-theological Legacy of H. Paul Santmire," hosted by the Martin Luther & Global Lutheran Traditions Unit @aarweb.bsky.social #AARSBL25
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AAR's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of religion. Send in your nominations by September 15, 2025: aarweb.org/award/martin...
August 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
AAR's Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion recognizes extraordinary contributions to the public understanding of religion. Send in your nominations by September 15, 2025: aarweb.org/award/martin...
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The article says “multiple synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, including those in New England, the greater Milwaukee area, southwest California, and southwest Texas” signed on.
July 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The article says “multiple synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, including those in New England, the greater Milwaukee area, southwest California, and southwest Texas” signed on.
Apparently ELCA Churchwide did not sign on to the lawsuit, only the New England Synod.
The ELCA @elcalutherans.bsky.social is a part of the new lawsuit arguing "raids, arrests, and surveillance at [houses of worship] could deny people of faith access to their places of worship and violate religious freedom rights." www.commondreams.org/news/ice-chu... @commondreams.org
Faith Groups Sue Trump Admin Over Immigration Raids at Houses of Worship | Common Dreams
Religious organizations sue DHS over policy targeting parishioners at houses of worship. Lawsuit alleges violation of First Amendment rights.
www.commondreams.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Apparently ELCA Churchwide did not sign on to the lawsuit, only the New England Synod.