Fall 2025 | A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet

Despite the discouraging ecological trends that mark the times, good news is stirring to disrupt the bad. The occasion for this Reflections issue is the historic new eco-regenerative Living Village at Yale Divinity School, setting a new standard for sustainable residential buildings on university campuses. As these Reflections writers demonstrate, the painstaking work of creation care and ecotheology—in neighborhoods and municipalities, in pulpits and classrooms, in spiritual and social consciousness itself—is alive and well and will help define the future. The power of faith and conviction to reverse environmental destruction is the real sign of the times.

Photo of the new residential Living Village at Yale Divinity School 
Architect: Bruner/Cott, with Höweler + Yoon Architecture
© Robert Benson Photography