Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide that provides a rationale, strategies, and resources for fulfilling environmental stewardship through the land and buildings of Christian and Jewish congregations. New construction, renovation, and historic preservation projects are addressed. Site development, material choices, energy generation and consumption, water use, interior air quality, green cleaning programs, and beauty are discussed. Ten congregations from across the United States and Canada are featured as examples of excellence in creation care in and through their built environments. 

I'm hard pressed to think of a religious tradition that doesn't mark the significance of certain physical spaces. It may be precisely because every tradition holds certain spaces sacred that the question of how we will relate to those spaces isn't going away, even as our traditions adapt to changing realities.

I encourage you to share the articles in this week's Weekly with your leadership teams as you engage questions about buildings in your context, and as always, let us know how you are answering those questions in your setting. We're eager to learn from you.