Building a Moral Economy: Pathways for People of Courage

 Fall 2024

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda has lectured or consulted in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, and many parts of North America in theological ethics addressing matters of climate justice as related to race and class, economic globalization, moral agency and hope, public church, faith-based resistance to systemic injustice, and ethical implications of resurrection and incarnation.  Her Resisting Structural Evil: Love as Ecological-Economic Vocation (Fortress, 2013), won a Nautilus Award for social justice. She also is author of Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (Fortress, 2002), Public Church: For the Life of the World (Fortress, 2004); co-author of Saint Francis and the Foolishness of God (Orbis, 1993, 2015), Say to this Mountain: Mark's Story of Discipleship (Orbis, 1996), and The Bible and Ethics: A New Conversation (Fortress Press, 2018); and co-editor of How Would We Know What God is Up To? (Aosis, 2022).  Her published articles and chapters number nearly 50.

Moe-Lobeda is Founding Director of the PLTS Center for Climate Justice and Faith. She is one of 3 North Americans appointed to a global team to advise the World Council of Churches and Lutheran World Federation on their work toward a more equitable international financial and economic architecture. Her awards include the Provost’s Outstanding Scholarship Award from California Lutheran University in 2019, the Outstanding Scholarship Award from Seattle University (College of Arts and Sciences) in 2013, appointment as Seattle University’s Wismer Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies from 2011-2013, the St. Francis Award from Earth Ministry, and the Public Leadership Award from Lutheran Public Policy Office.  She was appointed theological consultant to a former Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and has served as a health worker/church worker in Honduras and as Director of the Washington, D.C. office of Augsburg College's Center for Global Education.  She has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Tikkun Magazine, and Dialog: A Journal of Theology. 

Moe-Lobeda currently serves as Professor of Theological and Social Ethics at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley where she is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty. Her doctoral degree in Christian Ethics is from Union Theological Seminary. She loves hiking in the woods and mountains, and spending time with family and dear friends.