Fall 2025
rev. dr. abby mohaupt Bio
The rev. dr. abby mohaupt is an activist, scholar, organizer, and pastor with over 15 years of experience at the intersection of climate/environmental justice and faith. Ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she also holds a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from McCormick Theological Seminary and a dr. in Religion, Culture, and Ecology at Drew Theological School, writing on the Presbyterian Church (USA) and divestment from fossil fuels as a faithful response to the biblical call to care for people and the planet. Her creative, liturgical, and scholarly writings have been included in publications around the world, often in easily accessible platforms for lay people. The rev. mohaupt is based in Chicago, IL, with her family.
The rev. mohaupt has tremendous international leadership experience and networks in climate justice work. She served for five years as the Director of Education and Training for Greenfaith, an interfaith organization. In this capacity she played leadership roles at international, local, and national efforts toward climate justice. She now serves the church and the world as the Director of the Garrett Collective, an innovative, collaborative, and accessible platform for theological education based at Garrett Seminary.
rev. mohaupt is an excellent writer and is highly gifted in collaborative work and in climate communications. She is adroit in communicating one of the most important focal points of her book -- the utterly essential nature of economic and racial justice in addressing climate change. She is adept also in the fine but rare art of building hope and moral-spiritual agency while also acknowledging the stark horrors of climate injustice.
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Avoiding the most dire damages of climate change “requires transforming the world economy at a speed and scale that has ‘no documented historic precedent.’”
— Coral Davenport, citing an IPCC report

Resources for Building a Moral Economy:
A Toolkit
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Webpages
- Climate Justice Ministry
- The People’s Justice Council
- Center for Ecological Regeneration at Garrett Theological Seminary
- GreenFaith
- Green the Church
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports
- Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
- Earth Charter
- Gulf South for a Green New Deal
- Climate Reality Project’s Climate Justice Resources
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- Wisdom Keepers Delegation
- Green America
- Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP)
- Third Act
- The People’s Justice Council. “ShiftUS - US Fair Share.”
- League of Conservation Voters
- Interfaith Power and Light
- Taproot Earth
- Dayenu
- Rise St. James
- Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)
- Little Village Environmental Justice Organization
- Beyond Plastics
- The Black Hive
- Southeast Climate and Energy Network
- Climate Justice Alliance
- US Climate Action Network
- Climate Critical Earth
- Sol Nation
- New Alpha CDC
- Imani Market
- Faith in Place
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