Earth as Text, Earth as Pulpit Embodied Ecological Preaching between Mindfulness, Place, and Resistance

Preaching in times of ecological crisis requires more than new sermon topics; it calls for a transformation of the homiletical imagination itself. This paper explores ecological preaching as an embodied and relational practice that begins with attentiveness to place and the more-than-human world. Drawing on the article “How Does Creation Speak? Interwoven Preaching Between Mindfulness and Resistance,” it proposes preaching as a movement shaped by mindfulness, resistance, and relational listening rather than primarily rhetorical proclamation. The presentation also introduces a pedagogical experiment developed in the intensive seminar “Earth as Text, Earth as Pulpit,” where students engage in practices such as walking meditation, ecological observation, and collaborative sermon experiments. These practices function as a laboratory for ecological homiletics in which attentiveness, authority, and proclamation are rethought together. The paper argues that ecological preaching emerges where theological speech is grounded in embodied listening, relational accountability, and the lived realities of particular places.