YDS journal devotes new issue to ‘hope for a living planet’
Participants in the ribbon ceremony at the Living Village opening celebration
Despite globally discouraging ecological trends, good news is stirring to disrupt the bad. The Fall 2025 issue of the Divinity School journal Reflections features 19 theologians, ministers, and other YDS-related practitioners who declare that the work of creation care and eco-theology is alive and well and will define the future—if we choose it.
The occasion for this Reflections is a piece of historic good news in itself: the fall opening of the regenerative Living Village at YDS, which is setting a new standard for sustainable residential buildings on university campuses. As the Living Village and these Reflections writers manifest, the power of faith and conviction to reverse environmental destruction is the real sign of the times.
“Undergirded by the conviction that God is the creator of all, eco-theology understands that human beings are part of creation and are morally responsible to God for the way that we treat creation,” YDS Dean Greg Sterling writes in his column that opens this issue.
“Are we members of creation who are morally responsible for how we treat our fellow creatures, or are we masters who may act with impunity towards nature? Ultimately the survival of life as we know it is at stake.”