Spiritual Dimensions of the Climate Crisis

Join us for a talk on the spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis with the Rev. Dr. Andi Lloyd. Attend in person in the Mayer Room or register here to receive a Zoom invitation. This talk is co-sponsored by the Hanover Conservation Commission and the Howe Library. In this talk, the Rev. Dr. Andi Lloyd, a former professor of biology at Middlebury College and currently the co-pastor at the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College, will explore the spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis. Understanding and responding to climate change is a scientific challenge, a technological challenge, a political and economic challenge — and it is also a spiritual challenge, one that demands a transformation in how we understand ourselves, as humans, to be in relationship with one another and with the non-human world. Rev. Dr. Lloyd will explore how eco-spiritual and eco-theological perspectives can help to illuminate a path forward in a climate-changed world. Rev. Dr. Andi Lloyd is an ecologist and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She received her B.A. degree in Geography from Dartmouth College in 1989, an M.S. in Biology & Wildlife from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1992, and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1996. From 1996 to 2020, she was on the faculty of Middlebury College, where she taught classes on plant ecology, ecology and evolution, and climate change. While at Middlebury, she conducted research on the effects of climate change on forests in Alaska and Siberia. From 2012 to 2019, Andi also served as the Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Middlebury. Andi left academia in 2020 to pursue pastoral ministry. In 2022, she received her M.Div. degree from Yale Divinity School, after which she was ordained in the United Church of Christ. From 2022 to 2025, she served as pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational Parish of Castine, Maine. In October 2025, she joined the staff of the Church of Christ at Dartmouth College as co-pastor. Andi is the author/co-author of more than 30 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on forests and climate change. Along with Rev. Dr. Andy Nagy-Benson, she is the author of Letters to the Ecotone: Ecology, Theology, and Climate Change (Resource Publications, 2022).