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Raking Hope

By Emily Ruth Mace | October 30, 2020

This simple act of caring for my home in order to prepare for winter feels like an absurd act of hope.

"If you focus too much on only a personal relationship being the core tenet of your faith, then it means that you're more easily able to marginalize topics like human suffering, which in some cases is spurred by climate change. We are embodied creatures in this planet, so let's live like we are," said Sean Lyon. Credit: Meera Subramanian

Young Evangelicals Fighting for Climate Action

By Meera Subramanian | November 24, 2018

For students at this top evangelical college, loving God means protecting creation. That includes dealing with the human sources of climate change.

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Thank You, Zadie Smith

By Josephine Ferorelli | April 17, 2014

Beginning this summer and escalating through the winter, as I spend more of my waking hours reading, writing, and talking with people about the climate crisis, I have become insatiably…

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God Recap: Guns, Trucks and Inhospitality

By Mary Valle | February 24, 2014

God’s been up to a lot of stuff lately. According to Retired Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, Jesus will return carrying an AR-15. Since the AR-15 is the most popular…

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The End of Macha

By Dylan Harris | December 20, 2012

With the end of the world approaching, I will be snuggling up somewhere beneath a mosquito net, floating down a river through the mostly still-wild and mysterious Bolivian Amazon. I…

Sign photographed near the monastery at Petra represents both the directions to a mountain overlook and my mood after a week of Bible blitzes.

Apocalypse Week…Again

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford | December 18, 2012

Here at Killing the Buddha, we’ve been all over the apocalypse for a long time. The apocalypse is kind of like Christmas: it threatens to happen just about every year,…