If you are interested in writing for Green Blades Preaching Roundtable, please contact Rev. Kristin Foster at revkristinfoster@gmail.com
Writing Guidelines
A conversation on the creation implications within each Sunday lectionary
Reflections by preaching people for preachers and other hearers
Now the green blade rises from the buried grain. Wheat from the dark earth many days has lain.
Love comes again like wheat arising green. Now the green blade rises from the buried grain.
ELW #379, stanza 1
The Green Blades Preaching Roundtable gathers multiple voices of preaching people like you willing to wrestle with the weekly lectionary’s relevance in light of God’s love for the whole community of creation and our present ecological-civilizational turning point. Planted within each weekly set of assigned readings, God’s living Word-seed speaks into our situation.
General comments about these reflections
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You may address each text separately or respond to them as a whole. You may also choose to focus on just one or two of the assigned texts. How does the text or texts open you to hear the cry and wisdom of creation and heed God's call to respond in this Kairos-time?
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Your comments are not intended to be authoritative answers, but rather catalysts within the Green Blades Rising preaching community. What you write is your own fresh encounter with the lectionary. Your reflections do not need to utilize commentary.
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Feel free to tell a story, personal or otherwise, or share a passage that is evoked by your encounter with the readings.
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Many of us are becoming increasingly aware of the intersection of racism, inequality, and the ecological/climate crisis. We welcome any reflections you might have at this intersection.
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Feel free to exercise the courage and humility to ask questions for which you do not have answers and name problems beyond our capacity to fix; or to address tensions within scripture and theology you don’t know how to resolve.
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You may link people to current articles, documentaries, movies, and books.
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The Creation Connections from Sundays and Seasons may be thought starters.
Overall format
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A Word document
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Title should include the day in the church year, the date, and the assigned readings for the day.
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You may, if you choose, include liturgical suggestions/hymn(s) that relate to your theme.
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Length can be anywhere from a few paragraphs to a few pages.
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A few sentences bio about who you are, where you live, your ministry position
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Attach a photo of yourself in the Word document if possible. Otherwise, include it in the same email as your Green Blades reflection
Thank you for participating in this conversation!
As we mutually attune ourselves to hear, not as experts but as hearers, the Word-seed germinates, blooms, and pollinates God’s grassroots movement to tend and mend our relationship within the whole community of creation.
Additional Videos

Earth Day’s Jubilee Year: Professor Diane Levy Jacobson explores the ancient tradition of jubilee proclaimed in Leviticus and Isaiah and continuing in Luke, and how it is connected to Earth Day 2020, now in its 50th year. With breath-taking nature photography by J. David Levy, the video contemplates jubilee ideas of rest for the land, release from servitude, relation to the foreigner and immigrant, and other concepts that are strikingly connected to our experience in this time of climate crisis, cultural tension, and pandemic strife.
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Earth Day, Our Moment to Arise: Around the world, youth and young adults are urging us to heed the climate emergency -- for the sake of their future, for those who are marginalized, and for all life on Earth. In this video, Earth Day, Our Moment to Arise , four high school and young adult climate advocates from the upper Midwest – Izzy Laderman, Johanna Bernu, Kayli Skinner, and Jordan Stone, with EcoFaith co-chairperson Pastor Kristin Foster -- probe the intersections between the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis, and challenge us to make critical decisions about a profound and shared change in direction.