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You chair the finance committee. Your church's endowment just got rated by a third-party ESG firm. Score: C-minus. The report cites vague governance, ...
Net-zero pledges are everywhere. But governing them? That's where it gets sticky. Turns out, the same arguments that split theologians in the 16th cen...
You're sitting on land your community has cared for since before the county was surveyed. Your faith tradition says the earth is the Lord's, not yours...
You're the one who stays up nights wondering if your tradition's creation story can survive a climate briefing. Maybe you lead a congregation that rec...
I once sat in a conference room with a foundation that had just lost its endowment. The CEO, a man in his sixties, looked like he'd been punched. 'We ...
The church parking lot sits three-quarters empty on a Tuesday morning. The lawn is immaculate—chemically green, ecologically dead. Meanwhile, the cong...
A CFO once told me, 'ESG is just marketing with footnotes.' He wasn't wrong. In 2023, the Global Reporting Initiative found that 78% of companies with...
Your congregation has been practicing stewardship since long before the word 'sustainability' appeared in a corporate mission statement. The land your...
Imagine a congregation where the oldest members remember the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Not from history books—firsthand. Their great-grandp...
In 2019, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reported $1.2 billion in unfunded pension liabilities—a quiet debt that had accrued over decades. ...
In 60 AD, the Roman writer Columella laid out soil conservation rules that would later be called 'the primary systematic agronomy.' He insisted on cro...
The collection plate still works. But does it work well ? That is the question haunting many faith leaders as they stare down a budget shortfall or wa...
A quiet fact surprises most organizers: a farming commune in rural France has been rotating crops and maintaining hedgerows using the same ecological ...