Climate Justice Archives | Mennonite Church USA

Finding our path through climate doom

Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler reflects on how to respond to climate doom with resistance and resilience, after attending Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary's Rooted and Grounded conference. Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler serves as the climate justice... read more →

October 27, 2023
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MC USA names Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler as climate justice coordinator

ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Church USA) — Mennonite Church USA Executive Board staff has named Karla Stoltzfus Detweiler as the new climate justice coordinator.... read more →

September 6, 2023
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Climate justice: What’s an introvert to do?

Talitha Amadea Aho, keynote speaker for the Youth & Young Adult Climate Summit, held after MennoCon23, writes a letter to thank the climate summit attendees and follow up on a... read more →

August 25, 2023
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Heal Ourselves, Heal Our Planet

Ingrid Friesen Moser, wellbeing coordinator for The Corinthian Plan, shares how spending time outdoors can help heal us and, when we come together for climate justice, can also help our... read more →

August 23, 2023
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MennoCon23 seminar combats climate anxiety with strategies for hope and resilience

Sarah Werner, climate justice intern for Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), presented a seminar focused on climate anxiety... read more →

MennoCon23 Special Offering to support Creation Care Fund

The special offering at Mennonite Church USA’s MennoCon23 convention in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3-6, 2023, will benefit the denomination’s new Creation Care... read more →

MC USA hires climate justice intern

By Jessica Griggs and Sarah Werner for Mennonite Church USA Elkhart, Ind. (Mennonite Church USA) — Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) has hired a climate justice intern, Sarah Werner, as... read more →

February 1, 2023
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A rural congregation goes solar: Metamora (Illinois) Mennonite Church

Karla Kauffman, of West Liberty, Ohio, has a longstanding interest in sustainable lifestyles. She spent countless hours researching, interviewing and writing a solar guide for churches for Mennonite Creation Care Network (MCCN).... read more →

December 9, 2022
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Leaders from across U.S. faith denominations gathered to accelerate climate action

Participants in the National Faith Leaders Climate Roundtable, New York, New York, on November 14. MC USA Executive Director Glen Guyton is in the back row,... read more →

November 19, 2022
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I bike for world peace, personal shalom — and because I love biking

This blog is in celebration of National Bike to Work Day, May 20. Lynda Hollinger-Janzen has worked for Mennonite Mission Network and its predecessor agencies, Commission on Overseas Missions and... read more →

Poverty and climate injustice

This article is part of Mennonite Church USA’s Cost of Poverty: Learn, Pray, Join initiative. Douglas Kaufman is the director of pastoral ecology at the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions, a partnership... read more →