Erin Lothes is a Catholic theologian and author of Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action (Orbis) and The Paradox of Christian Sacrifice: The Loss of Self, The Gift of Self (Herder and Herder), as well as many articles on faith-based environmentalism, divestment, and energy ethics. Lothes was an associate professor of theology for 10 years and is now senior manager of the Laudato Si’ Animators Program with the Laudato Si’ Movement.