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January 2026 Movement Café: Climate Action Legislation

by | Dec 31, 2025 | Movement Café

January 2026 Movement Café:

Climate Action Legislation

January 21, 2026

9am AK / 10am PT / 11am MT / 12pm CT / 1pm ET 

Sponsored by the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, the informal, virtual space of the Café facilitates conversation, connection, and community focused on creation care and justice issues.

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The Café registration resets each year—please re-register this January.

Climate Action Legislation

It is time to prepare legislation in anticipation of good conversations and productive outcomes around creation justice during annual conferences in 2026. Every year the Movement offers model resolutions that can be adapted and/or modified as needed for each annual conference. Together, these resolutions affirm the words and work of the United Methodist Books of Discipline and Resolutions and moves the church toward realistic and urgent action. At the January Movement Café Movement leaders will introduce resolutions recommended for 2026.
Why is legislation for climate action urgent and faithful? Author Rev. Sharon Delgado joins us to share the vital “why” of the work of creation justice in the United Methodist context. Her newly revised book, “Love in a Time of Climate Change” is a valuable resource in preparation for annual conference conversations and the urgent need for faithful action. (Find the Revised Edition Bookshop.org, at Fortress Press, or on Amazon.)

Speakers

Sharon Delgado

Sharon Delgado is an ordained United Methodist minister, author, activist, and public theologian who leads seminars and workshops, preaches, and speaks before spiritual communities and secular audiences on issues related to globalization, climate change, economic and environmental justice, and peacemaking, while pointing in the direction of deep spirituality and love in action. By demonstrating the link between spirituality and social action, she offers a spiritual perspective and inspires action toward personal and social transformation

Sharon is a founding director of Earth Justice Ministries, an interfaith organization working for peace, justice, and restoration of the community of life. Sharon is Convener of Fossil Free UMC, which advocates for the United Methodist Church to divest from fossil fuels. She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the United Methodist Creation Justice Movement, which works across United Methodist denomination to coordinate actions related to creation justice.

Dr. Karen McElfish

Dr. Karen McElfish is an Global Ministries Earthkeeper. Her home conference is the Virginia Conference, where she serves as the United Women in Faith President and is a member of the Virginia Creation Justice team and co-chair of the Conference Legislative Network. She leads the Annual Conference Organizing team for the UM Creation Justice Movement.

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