Archive of Care for Creation Lectionary Reflections

Archive of Care for Creation Commentary on the Lectionary Lessons (see below)

Let All Creation Praise is pleased to offer substantive care-for-creation reflections by on the lessons for each Sunday in the Revised Common Lectionary. These commentaries are exegetically-based, theologically sound, creative in their ecological exploration of the text’s potential, and effective in articulation. The care for creation commentary is not an add-on, but an integral part of the exposition of the text itself. The purpose of this commentary is to provide a foundational resource for preachers and congregations seeking to incorporate care for creation into their worship and congregational life. Our Commentators

YEAR B (2018)

Our Commentators from Lent 1 to the Day of Pentecost:

We are once again providing fresh and timely creation-justice commentary on the Common Lectionary lessons from the First Sunday in Lent to the Day of Pentecost.

Tom Mundahl will offer the commentary for the five Sundays in Lent. Dr. Mundahl has served as pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in St. Louis Park, MN, has taught in higher education, and led numerous Care of the Earth workshops.
Dr. Leah Schade with provide reflections on Passion Sunday. She served a parish in Pennsylvania and initiated creation-justice efforts there around local issues. She authored Creation-Crisis Preaching and now teaches preaching and worship at Lexington Theological Seminary in Kentucky.
Kiara Jorgenson gives reflections on the three days of prayer from Maundy Thursday to the resurrection. Dr. Jorgenson recently received her PhD from Luther Seminary and will soon begin a teaching position in Religion and Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College.
Dennis Ormseth presents exegetical reflections from Easter Sunday through the Day of Pentecost. Dr. Ormseth served as pastor of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation in St. Louis Park, MN, and as campus pastor at Purdue University; he taught Christian Thought at Holy Cross College and Luther Seminary. In retirement, he helps to lead the EcoFaith Network of the Minneapolis Area Synod of the ELCA.

We are grateful for their hard work and wisdom in making their passion commitments and their wisdom available to pastors and other church leaders.

PENTECOST INYEAR B

The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (From 2012, by Tom Mundahl)

The Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Sundays after Pentecost in Year B (from 2012, by Dennis Ormseth)

The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundahl)

NEW The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (by Amy Carr)

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundah

The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundahl)

The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundahl)

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundahl)

The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2015) (by Tom Mundahl)

NEW The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost in Year B (2018!) (by Amy Carr)