This presentation explores the mutually illuminating light that Jesus Christ and movements for environmental justice shed on one another. The stories of Christ provide both a practical path and hopeful vision for how to work for liberation in the midst of empire. Grassroots Christian movements for environmental justice, likewise, help us to root ancient stories in the soils of creation and everyday life. Together we will shed some new (green) light on some familiar passages from the Gospels and recount the prophetic memory of Fannie Lou Hamer and movements for agrarian reform in El Salvador. In doing so, we will reflect on the relevance of these practices and visions for our contexts in Kentucky to find green good news in the midst of our challenging times.

(The talk is a combination of my second book, The Green Good News, which is an environmental justice reading of the Gospels, and my current book project on Christ and the Commons.)