Pastor Daniel Cooperrider
from March 14, 2026
Daniel Cooperrider is a writer, ecotheologian, and pastor in the United Church of Christ. Daniel is the author of Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You: A Field Guide to the Bible, Gold Winner in the 2023 Nautilus Book Awards, and Live Each Season as It Passes: Re-Earthing Spiritual Practice (forthcoming, May 2026). Daniel and family are based on the edge of the Driftless area in Madison, Wisconsin and in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.
JORDAN THOMAS
from February 7, 2026
Jordan Thomas is an anthropologist and former wildland firefighter who researches climate change, disaster, and environmental justice. He is the author of the National Book Award finalist, When It All Burns, a personal account of firefighting and a sweeping history of America’s relationship with wildfire.
This talk draws on frontline experience from California’s wildfires to examine the structural factors shaping the health impacts of climate change.
Michael Mulberry
from January 24, 2026
Michael Mulberry is the pastor of two rural United Church of Christ (UCC) Churches in Southwest Michigan, St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Watervliet and First Congregational United Church of Christ in Coloma. Mike is also the Facilitator for the secular environmental justice group, Great Southwest Michigan Climate Action and one of the founders of Great Lakes Creation Collaborative, a partnership with six different UCC Conferences and the United Church of Canada. He participates in Third Act Michigan and wrote a book study for Bill McKibben's book, Here Comes the Sun. He led a four-week movement study (by Zoom) on the book which included people from all over the state of Michigan.
As a writer, he has also been the team leader on a Lenten Creation Source Book for two different liturgical years. Recently, Mike also wrote a six-week "Adopt a Body of Water" curriculum which encourages action and activism radiating out of care for a local watershed, understanding that watershed as kin, and making that local watershed part of liturgical and sacramental practice.
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Michael Mulberry is the pastor of two rural United Church of Christ (UCC) Churches in Southwest Michigan, St. Paul’s United Church of Christ in Watervliet and First Congregational United Church of Christ in Coloma. Mike is also the Facilitator for the secular environmental justice group, Great Southwest Michigan Climate Action and one of the founders of Great Lakes Creation Collaborative, a partnership with six different UCC Conferences and the United Church of Canada. He participates in Third Act Michigan and wrote a book study for Bill McKibben's book, Here Comes the Sun. He led a four-week movement study (by Zoom) on the book which included people from all over the state of Michigan.
As a writer, he has also been the team leader on a Lenten Creation Source Book for two different liturgical years. Recently, Mike also wrote a six-week "Adopt a Body of Water" curriculum which encourages action and activism radiating out of care for a local watershed, understanding that watershed as kin, and making that local watershed part of liturgical and sacramental practice.