Doug Kaufman directs the Anabaptist Climate Collaborative, an organization that leads climate justice initiatives from an Anabaptist faith perspective. Doug and his team support Mennonite and other Anabaptist churches, helping to build networks, train leaders, and empower climate-related initiatives. Doug describes environmental work as a form of peacemaking, a way of countering the slow violence of actions that cause and exacerbate climate change. Thanks to Doug for geeking out with me on theology and offering some glimpses of Mennonite climate work.

Explore some of Doug’s writing on climate advocacy here.

In this episode, we highlight several Anabaptist faith communities who are pursuing climate justice through simple, sustainable living:

* The Taftsville Chapel and their climate initiative called the Schoolhouse for Simple Living

* Doug’s “Mennonite cookbook canon”:

* More-with-Less Cookbook by Doris Longacre

* Simply in Season by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert

* Extending the Table by Joetta Handrich Schlabach

* Sustainable Kitchen by Heather Wolfe and Jaynie McCloskey

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