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Alan Jenkins

Rev. Alan Jenkins is a Parish Associate at Oakhurst Presbyterian Church in Decatur, GA, a Climate Reality Project Leader, and he was the first person in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to be ordained specifically for a ministry of creation care and eco-justice (2007). He studied at McCormick Theological Seminary before completing his Masters of Divinity at Johnson C. Smith Theological Seminary, then a part of The Interdenominational Theological Center. A former mission worker in Guatemala, Alan now serves as a hospice chaplain in Atlanta, GA. Find him on facebook here.

Essays

Lent in the Anthropocene

Humans may very well not survive to the end of the century, but in faithfulness to the Creator, between fasting and serving the Garden, hope is alive. The liturgical season of Lent is such a time.