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Faith, Hope, and Sustainability

Author : Cybelle T. Shattuck
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438482000
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Hope, and Sustainability written by Cybelle T. Shattuck and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith, Hope, and Sustainability explores the experiences of fifteen faith communities striving to care for the earth and live more sustainably. A church in Maine partners with fishermen to create the first community-supported fishery so they can make a living without overfishing. A Jewish congregation in Illinois raises extra funds to construct a green synagogue that expresses their religious mission to heal the world. Benedictine sisters in Wisconsin adopt caring for the earth as part of their mission and begin restoring one hundred acres of prairie, reviving their community in the process. Presbyterians in Virginia, dismayed by air pollution in Shenandoah National Park, take courage from their conviction that "God does not call us to do little things" and advocate for improved national air pollution policies. Stories such as these highlight the variety of environmental actions that people of faith are enacting through congregational venues. Beyond simply narrating inspiring stories, however, this book compares these case studies to explore in detail the processes through which the communities took action. In addition to examining why faith communities engage in earth care, Cybelle T. Shattuck explores how they put intention into action and how the congregational context affects what they do. She introduces an analytical framework focusing on four domains of activity—champions, faith leaders, congregations, and organizations—to explicate the full range of factors that influence how initiatives develop and whether sustainability becomes embedded in these religious organizations. Both the framework and the information on process presented in this book will be highly useful to scholars and to people of faith interested in implementing an earth-care ethic through sustainability programs.

Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living

Author : Nick Spencer
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587433061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Christianity, Climate Change, and Sustainable Living written by Nick Spencer and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should Christians do to protect the Earth and its people? Amounts and patterns of consumption and production in the West have reached a level that cannot be maintained. Lifestyles based on our present way of creating and using energy are no longer environmentally sustainable--and are threatening the health and well-being of both planet and people. Our activities and the policies that shape them need to change. In light of those realities, Spencer, White, and Vroblesky offer serious Christian engagement with the emerging issue of Sustainable Consumption and Production. They analyze the scientific, sociological, economic, and theological thinking that makes a Christian response to these trends imperative and distinctive. And they offer practical conclusions that explore and explain what can be done at the personal, community, national, and international levels to ensure that next generations will have the resources necessary for life. Firmly rooted in the good news of the Christian faith, this is, above all, a constructive and hopeful book that offers a realistic vision of what the future could and should look like. This book is endorsed by A Rocha: Christians in Conservation, The Jubliee Centre, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, and The Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies.

The Earth Cries Out

Author : Gardner, Gary
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608338754
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Earth Cries Out written by Gardner, Gary and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Earth Cries Out describes best practices in religious responses to the impending climate and sustainability emergency, and presents the next steps for faith communities in the years ahead"--

Sustainability and Spirituality

Author : John E. Carroll
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484580
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainability and Spirituality by : John E. Carroll

Download or read book Sustainability and Spirituality written by John E. Carroll and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book explores the inherent interconnectedness of sustainability and spirituality, acknowledging the dependency of one upon the other. John E. Carroll contends that true ecological sustainability, in contrast to the cosmetic attempts at sustainability we see around us, questions our society's fundamental values and is so countercultural that it is resisted by anyone without a spiritual belief in something deeper than efficiency, technology, or economics. Carroll draws on the work of cultural historian and "geologian" Thomas Berry, whose eco-spiritual thought underlies many of the sustainability efforts of communities described in this book, including particular branches of Catholic religious orders and the loosely organized Sisters of the Earth. The writings of Native Americans on spirituality and ecology are also highlighted. These models for sustainability not only represent the tangible link between ecology and spirituality, but also, more importantly, a vision of what could be.

Green Christianity

Author : Mark I Wallace
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451413858
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Green Christianity written by Mark I Wallace and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central message of this book is that religion has a special role to play in saving the planet. Religion has the unique power to fire the imagination and empower the will to break the cycle of addiction to nonrenewable energy. The environmental crisis is a crisis not of the head but of the heart. The problem is not that we do not know how to stop climate change but rather that we lack the inner strength to redirect our culture and economy toward a sustainable future. Only a bold and courageous faith can undergird a long-term commitment to change. This book is a call to hope, not despair--a survey of promising directions and a call for readers to discover meaning and purpose in their lives through a spiritually charged commitment to saving the Earth.

Faith, Hope and the Global Economy

Author : Richard Higginson
Publisher : IVP
ISBN 13 : 9781844745807
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Hope and the Global Economy written by Richard Higginson and published by IVP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Richard Higginson argues that, rightly understood and applied, faith can be an enormous power for good -- stimulating enterprise, reducing poverty, promoting integrity, ensuring sustainability and making disciples. This ground-breaking book will help business men and women to think deeply about what they do and why they do it. It shows how every episode in the biblical story of salvation has something important, challenging and hopeful to say about business practice. It explores alternative business models that provide signs of hope, and also offers insight and encouragement to those working for mainstream companies."--Cover.

Sustaining Grace

Author : Scott J. Hagley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532687591
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Grace written by Scott J. Hagley and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Grace explores the dynamic between new faith communities and denominational systems through the lens of stewardship and sustainability. As a collection, these essays suggest that to facilitate ecologies for innovation in our current era, established congregations and new faith communities must model the sustaining grace of God to one another in creative ways. Thus, problems of sustainability are not for church planters to solve alone, but rather are related to the theologies of stewardship and the ecclesial system to which they belong. Issues of vision are not for denominational systems to theorize alone, but are given shape on their historic foundations in the creative and prophetic structures practiced in new faith communities. This book speaks to a central tension in the growing movement of church planting—the mutual need of and the mutual frustration between establishment leaders and innovators, conservators and risk takers. Standing at the contact point of that tension in one of the wealthiest mainline denominations, 1001 New Worshipping Communities and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary engage the question of faithful stewardship with voices reflecting and strategizing on each side of the tension, broadening the conversation to include those beyond the Presbyterian Church, and bringing both the academy and practitioners from church judicatories, church plants, and traditional church communities to offer a theologically grounded, practical, and generative conversation.

Faith in Conservation

Author : Martin Palmer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821355596
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Faith in Conservation written by Martin Palmer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, arising from over twenty years experience of working with the world's major faiths, draws extensively upon joint World Bank and ARC (Alliance of Religion and Conservation)/WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) projects world wide. It shows, through stories, land management, myths, investment policies, legends, advocacy and celebration, the role the major faiths have, do and can play in making the world a better place. The major faiths are the oldest institutions in the world and have survived essentially because they are constantly evolving and changing. There is much to be learnt by newer institutions such as the World Bank and the multitudes of NGOs about how to remain true to what you believe but change and grow as you develop. The book explores issues of climate change, forestry, asset management, education and biodiversity protection and does so using the techniques of the great faiths storytelling, example and celebration. It reveals a variety of world views and it asks us to see that our personal view may be just one amongst many. The challenge of living with integrity in a pluralist world underlies the book and it offers models of how diversity is crucial in attempting to ensure we have a sustainable world.

Sustainable Faith: A green gospel for the age of climate change

Author : Nicola L. Bull
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244932042
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustainable Faith: A green gospel for the age of climate change by : Nicola L. Bull

Download or read book Sustainable Faith: A green gospel for the age of climate change written by Nicola L. Bull and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible-based, this book demonstrates that an important element of 21st-century Christian faith is about engaging with the big challenges of climate change and sustainable living.

Faith, Hope, Action

Author : Diana Ensign
Publisher : Spirithawk Life Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780988332034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Hope, Action written by Diana Ensign and published by Spirithawk Life Publications. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prophetic witness for these stressful times in our Earth's history, award-winning author Diana Ensign points the way to a better future. Inspired by a deep love of nature and a concern for our environmental and climate change challenges, Diana embarks on a yearlong quest to learn what we need to do to save our Earth home. Along this journey, she seeks out scientists, farmers, Indigenous teachers, faith-based visionaries, environmental justice advocates, and student activists who are working for a sustainable planet. Propelled by love, Diana also spends reflective time listening to Mother Earth to initiate healing-for ourselves, for our fellow inhabitants, and for our Earth-and she invites us to do the same! Includes Book Club Discussion Topics for helpful Earth care actions. "A balm for the anxiety and grief so many of us feel." --Dr. Candace Corson, MD, CEO of Corson Wellness, LLC "Faith, Hope, Action imparts the message that change occurs in community and in conversation with each other." --Gabriel Filippelli, PhD, author of Climate Change and Life "Diana Ensign's inspiring message brings to mind a quote from Cesar Chavez, 'It starts with your heart and radiates out.'" --Charlie Wiles, Executive Director, Center for Interfaith Cooperation "From my Christian faith perspective, all humanity has the responsibility for ensuring we live respectfully of the abundance entrusted to us by our Creator. Faith, Hope, Action shows how positive, Earth-conscious actions result in life-affirming change for the whole Earth." --Reverend Amber Good, Faith & Ecology Education Director Teter Retreat & Organic Farm, Noblesville First United Methodist Church" "Diana Ensign's Faith, Hope, Action connects the reader to current environmental challenges that may seem overwhelming at first, but she provides timely wisdom and guidance on ways everyone can take meaningful action to help our Earth." --Ellen Jacquart, former ecologist at The Nature Conservancy "Tackling the climate change crisis is a task so overwhelming that it stops most people from doing anything. Diana Ensign (who won WATER's Rosemary Ganley Essay contest) breaks it down into doable chunks, offering something for everyone to try. Whether building a house with recycled materials, probing one's faith tradition for inspiration, or eating healthily grown food, the options are endless: And the need is now!" --Mary E. Hunt, PhD, Co-Director, Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual (WATER).

A Greener Faith

Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199884226
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book A Greener Faith written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of darkening environmental prospects, frightening religious fundamentalism, and moribund liberalism, the remarkable and historically unprecedented rise of religious environmentalism is a profound source of hope. In A Greener Faith , Roger S. Gottlieb chronicles the promises of this critically important movement, illuminating its principal ideas, leading personalities, and ways of connecting care for the earth with justice for human beings. He also shows how religious environmentalism breaks the customary boundaries of "religious issues" in political life. Asserting that environmental degradation is sacrilegious, sinful, and an offense against God catapults religions directly into questions of social policy, economic and moral priorities, and the overall direction of secular society. Gottlieb contends that a spiritual perspective applied to the Earth provides the environmental movement with a uniquely appropriate way to voice its dream of a sustainable and just world. Equally important, it helps develop a world-making political agenda that far exceeds interest group politics applied to forests and toxic incinerators. Rather, religious environmentalism offers an all-inclusive vision of what human beings are and how we should treat each other and the rest of life. Gottlieb deftly analyzes the growing synthesis of the movement's religious, social, and political aspects, as well as the challenges it faces in consumerism, fundamentalism, and globalization. Highly engaging and passionately argued, this book is an indispensable resource for people of faith, environmentalists, scholars, and anyone who is concerned about our planet's future.

The Power of the Periphery

Author : Peder Anker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477569
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Periphery written by Peder Anker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how Norway has positioned itself as an alternative, environmentally-sound nation in a world filled with tension and instability.

A Free People's Suicide

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830866825
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book A Free People's Suicide written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Logos Book of the Year "If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American republic could remain free forever. But how was this to be done, and are Americans doing it today? It is not enough for freedom to be won. It must also be sustained. Cultural observer Os Guinness argues that the American experiment in freedom is at risk. Summoning historical evidence on how democracies evolve, Guinness shows that contemporary views of freedom--most typically, a negative freedom from constraint-- are unsustainable because they undermine the conditions necessary for freedom to thrive. He calls us to reconsider the audacity of sustainable freedom and what it would take to restore it. "In the end," Guinness writes, "the ultimate threat to the American republic will be Americans. The problem is not wolves at the door but termites in the floor." The future of the republic depends on whether Americans will rise to the challenge of living up to America's unfulfilled potential for freedom, both for itself and for the world.

Hope in the Age of Climate Change

Author : Chris Doran
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 149829703X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Hope in the Age of Climate Change written by Chris Doran and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to be hopeful in the midst of daily news about the effects of climate change on people and our planet. While the Christian basis for hope is the resurrection of Jesus, unfortunately far too many American Protestant Christians do not connect this belief with the daily witness of their faith. This book argues that the resurrection proclaims a notion of hope that should be the foundation of a theology of creation care that manifests itself explicitly in the daily lives of believers. Christian hope not only inspires us to do great and courageous things but also serves as a critique of current systems and powers that degrade humans, nonhumans, and the rest of creation and thus cause us to be hopeless. Belief in the resurrection hope should cause us to be a different sort of people. Christians should think, purchase, eat, and act in novel and courageous ways because they are motivated daily by the resurrection of Jesus. This is the only way to be hopeful in the age of climate change.

Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope

Author : Anne Marie Dalton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438432984
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Ecotheology and the Practice of Hope written by Anne Marie Dalton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at how ecotheology has created a new vision of the natural world and the place of humans within it.

A Sustainable Life

Author : Douglas Gwyn
Publisher : Quakerpress of Fgc
ISBN 13 : 9781937768553
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book A Sustainable Life written by Douglas Gwyn and published by Quakerpress of Fgc. This book was released on 2014 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-known Quaker historian explores the qualities of Quaker faith and practice that contribute to living sustainably in the world today. He explores such paradoxes as equality and community, unity and differentiation, integrity and personal discernment, and other aspects of life that Quakers have worked to bring into balance through their 350-year history. How have Quakers learned to create the kind of individual and community life that can prepare us to live fully and responsibly into a time of social and planetary change?

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Author : Nick Cave
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374607389
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Faith, Hope and Carnage written by Nick Cave and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Telegraph Best Book of 2022 Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hours of intimate conversations with the journalist Seán O’Hagan, this is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave’s own words, of what really drives his life and creativity. The book examines questions of belief, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave’s life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years. Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true visionary.