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September 27, 2026

In this Sustainable Faith essay, Dayenu organizer Lenny Somervell reflects on climate grief and the pressure to "don't mourn, organize." Drawing on Jewish traditions of mourning, Somervell argues that grief and action aren't opposites, and that the climate crisis wasn't created by individual choices and can't be solved by them. Our power, like our responsibility, is collective. Rabbi Laura Bellows closes with a High Holiday reflection on recommitting to the world as it could and should be.