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In a new essay for The Christian Century, Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies and Clinical Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Care, reflects on the emotional and spiritual dimensions of living in a climate-changed world and the pastoral work required to meet this moment.

Rather than approaching climate change solely through data or policy, Lindner invites readers to attend to grief, fear, hope, and moral imagination as essential components of faithful response. Drawing on preaching, pastoral care, and embodied practice, the essay asks how communities can learn not only to survive ecological disruption, but to live well amid it.

Lindner’s reflections extend conversations sparked at the Living Well During Climate Change conference, held recently at Swift Hall, where scholars, students, and practitioners gathered to consider how religious traditions can help shape resilient, ethical, and compassionate responses to climate change.

Read the full essay in The Christian Century.