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Growing up, Jessie Ratcliff (she/her/he/him) navigated the challenges of being a Black transgender, nonbinary kid by finding solace in nature, taking part in trail restoration projects during high school. She describes traveling to Maui to help build stairs within an extinct volcano, a formative experience that forged her multilayered identity as a minister, person of color, transgender person and environmentalist. “I believe that caring for the Earth is an expression of reverence for the divine,” he writes. EarthBeat.

Few institutions sit at the heart of a neighborhood quite like places of worship. They nourish our spiritual lives, run food pantries and clothing drives and quietly...