Clark Strand

Clark Strand is the author of How to Believe in God: Whether You Believe in Religion or Not (Doubleday, 2009). A contributing editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, he writes The Green Bodhisattva for that magazine, as well as a weekly online Green Koans column.

(A)theologiesMarch 21, 2011

Disaster Theology: Blame and Powerlessness in Japan

By Clark Strand

The desire to regain control in the face of terrifying events is so strong we’ll do or say almost anything to put ourselves back in charge.

Science & TechnologyAugust 31, 2009

What Good is a Morality That Doesn’t Encompass All Life on Earth?

By Clark Strand

The way we live will lead, inevitably, to the extinction of half of the planet’s biodiversity by century’s end. How can our morality, or our religion, prepare us for this?

(A)theologies, Science & TechnologyJuly 20, 2009

Apocalypse Earth: What Would Jesus Say About the Approaching Environmental “End Times”?

By Clark Strand

Does Christianity have any workable teachings for an age of global concerns? Were Jesus to return on this 40th anniversary of the moon landing to preach a “Sermon on the Moon,” “Consider the lilies” would become “consider the ecosystem,” and a “house built upon sand” would be, well, just about any house built on any shoreline in the world.