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Food and Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread, is both an anthology and community-building study guide, similar to Simpler Living, Compassionate Life. To be published in December 2002, this book begins with a focus on the celebration and spirituality of food and moves on to examine the ecological and social impacts of the global food system. Along the way it includes chapters on health, genetically modified organisms, and hunger. Food and Faith encourages movement from passive consumerism to mindful participation in all the systems involved in bringing food from farmer to table.
The award-winning Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective has now sold over 20,000 copies. Both an anthology of essays and a community-building study guide, this book helps individuals and groups become aware of the connections between the Christian faith, daily life-style choices, and their impact on the natural world.
The Cry of All Creation: A Call for Climate Justice. An Interfaith Study Guide on Global Warming was published in October 2003. This twenty-five page booklet and study guide presents an introductory consideration of one of our most pressing environmental problems, global warming.
Greening Congregations Handbook:
Stories, Ideas, and Resources for Cultivating Creation Awareness and Care in
Your Congregation. This
225-page Handbook is a “tool box” for all who want to foster creation
awareness and care in their congregations. The Handbook includes a “Greening
Congregation Process” to help congregations develop an enduring,
creation-honoring focus within all dimensions of congregational life.
Caring For All Creation
Earth Ministry’s
four-part Caring for All Creation program encourages both individuals
and communities of faith to live in loving community with all of God’s
creation, in specific aspects of our lives. The four modules are "On The
Road," "At The Table," "In The Home," and "By The Waters."
Ecological Healing: by Rev. Nancy Wright and Donald Kill
This inspiring introduction to a new, ecologically sensitive view of Christian vocation and spirituality pulls down the barriers between matters of earth and spirit, and provides an integral environmental ethic. It links the human need for social and economic well-being to care for the Earth. It covers, from an international viewpoint, environmental and social justice issues, historical reasons for the abuse of creation, biblical perspectives, and actions needed for a sustainable world.
Organic Prayer: by Rev. Nancy Roth,; illustrations by Susan Mangam
Organic Prayer offers an environmentally aware metaphor for the contemplation of God and our attempts to live in harmony with God’s creation. Roth uses the experience of caring for the soil and gardening to create meditations that help us to cultivate, enrich, and understand more deeply our relationship with God, our neighbors, and ourselves.