Free Film Series to Help Congregations Embrace Creation Care
In faith communities across the country, many people are quietly wrestling with two deeply personal truths at once: a love for the natural world and a growing unease about climate change. For many, those feelings have existed side by side for years but rarely inside the walls of their churches, synagogues and mosques.
A new seven-part film series from Blessed Tomorrow — the faith initiative of the nonprofit ecoAmerica — hopes to change that.
“Caring for the Earth: Stories from Faith Communities” is an expansive, hopeful project aimed at congregations seeking to explore creation care through the lens of faith and move from concern to conversation to action.
Rev. Carol Devine
“We are in a climate crisis, and we need people of faith to come together,” said the Rev. Carol Devine, senior director of Blessed Tomorrow. “We all agree that we are called to care for and protect the earth.”
Crafted in partnership with award-winning film company Climate Listening Project, the series highlights more than 30 voices of Christian, Muslim, Indigenous, Jewish and Baha’i faith leaders, including youth and adults, across 14 states.
The film series is also free to all who are interested.
The seven short films, each running 20 minutes or less, are designed for groups of all ages and sizes and include a study guide with suggested scriptures, prayers, discussion questions and action steps.
Clergy members, youth leaders and interfaith organizers share lived experiences shaped by the wildfires of Los Angeles, Hurricane Helene in Asheville, North Carolina, and the effort to undam the Klamath River in Oregon and California.
“This isn’t Pollyanna at all,” said Devine, who served as a pastor in the Disciples of Christ denomination for 14 years. “They’ve been through literal fires and floods and hurricanes and still have hope and still want to share how the faith community can lead.”
Filmmaker Dayna Reggero traveled across the country, from the Pacific Northwest to the Southeast, listening to faith leaders who have built bioretention cells to manage stormwater runoff and planted community gardens to feed neighbors.
The series features four faith leaders in Florida alone — a state experiencing stronger storms and rising temperatures — who have taken on multiple projects, including opening cooling centers to combat the heat and petitioning local government to plant more trees.
The film titles themselves illustrate the breadth of the project:
- “To Tend and Keep: People of Faith Caring for the Earth”
- “Called By Faith: How Will You Answer?”
- “Seeds of Fire: Building Resilient Communities”
- “Holy Water: Protecting What Connects and Sustains Us”
- “Climate Justice: Sacred Voice Rising”
- “Healing Creation: Honoring Nature and Each Other”
- “Young Leaders: Creating Hope for the Future”
That spiritual grounding is intentional because Blessed Tomorrow’s target audience isn’t climate activists or policy experts. It’s ordinary people in faith communities who care about the environment but aren’t sure how to proceed.
“These are people who are living their lives and trying to live out their faith authentically,” Devine said. “We made this film series to support them.”
She believes many people already have concerns and even solutions, but they’re unsure of the next step.
“I don’t think most inaction comes from not caring,” Devine said. “It comes from not knowing what to do or feeling like we can’t make a difference by ourselves. But all of us can do our little piece.”
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