Resource
List for Caring for Creation
From Pr. Nancy
Wright, Ascension,
Premise:
the environmental crisis is so important that every religious leader can
teach/preach about it (especially important on Earth Day and World Environment
Day. Here are books and Web sites that have influenced me and taught me what I
know. Enjoy!
Theology
Fox,
Matthew. Original Blessing: A Primer in
Creation Spirituality (Bear & Co., 1983)
McFague, Fallie. Models of
God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (Fortress, 1987)
Hessel, Dieter T.,
and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the
Well-Being of Earth and Humans (Harvard University Press, 2000) (If you buy
one book, this should be the one. It is the collection of papers given by the
key theologians presenting at the Conference on Christianity and Ecology,
Rasmussen,
Larry. Earth Community, Earth Ethics.
(Orbis Books, 199)
Santmire,
H.
Sitler, Joseph. Evocations of Grace: Writings on Ecology,
Theology, and Ethics (Eerdman’s, 2000)
Webb,
Benjamin, ed. Fugitive Faith (Orbis, 1998)
Wright, Nancy, and Donald Kill. Ecological Healing: A Christian Vision
(Orbis, 1993) (out of print but may be borrowed for
study groups, email pastornancy@alcvt.org)
Economics
Daly, Herman E., and John B. Cobb, Jr. For the Common Good: Redirecting the
Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a
Sustainable Future (Beacon, 1989). (What would our economy look like if
nature mattered?)
Hopkins, Rob and Heinberg, Richard. The
Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience (Chelsea Green, 2008)
McKibben, Bill. Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and
the Durable Future (Holt
Paperbacks, 2008)
Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia. Healing
a Broken World: Globalization and God (Augsburg Fortress, 2002) (the author
is a Lutheran theologian and economist)
Our
Common Future: The World Commission on Environment and Development (
Interfaith
Tucker,
Mary Evelyn. Worldly Wonder: Religions
Enter Their Ecological Phase (Carus, 2003) (The
author organized ten major conferences on world religions and ecology for the
Forum on Religion and Ecology)
Church-centered
caring for creation
Barnett,
Tanya Marcovna, ed. and comp. Greening Congregations Handbook: Stories Ideas, and Resources for
Cultivating Creation Awareness and Care in Your Congregation (Earth Ministry, www.earthministry.org)
Tutu, Desmund et al. The
Green Bible (www.greenletterbible.com):
essays by Desmond Tutu, N. T. Wright, and many others. verses
and passages that speak to God’s care for creation highlighted in green; Green
Bible index and study guide (HarperOne, 2008)
Web sites
www.forumonreligionandecology.org
http://environment.harvard.edu/religion/main.html
(for the Religions of the World and Ecology series)
For the famous essay by Lynn White:”On
the Historical Roots of our Ecological Crisis” see www.faithnet.org.uk/theology/lynnwhite.htm.
www.earthministry.org (to order the
Greening Congregations Handbook: Stories, Ideas, and Resources for Cultivating
Creation Awareness and Care in Your Congregation)
www.nccecojustice.org (for Earth Day
resources)
www.nccecojustice.org/capsules
to signup for e-newsletter, with liturgical ideas throughout the year
Additional
Resources
ELCA
Check www.elca.org/advocacy/environment
for the following:
Awakening to God’s Call to Earthkeeping study guide
ELCA Environmental Audit Guide for
congregations, schools, and other groups
The Web of Creation site (www.webofcreation.org) includes
a number of earthkeeping resources developed by
professors and students at the Lutheran
School of Theology at
Caring for Creation: Vision, Hope and
Justice,
the ELCA social statement adopted in 1993. (www.elca.org/socialstatements/environment)
Interfaith
Power & Light
Web
site: www.ctipl.org
Contact: Rabbi Andrea Cohen-Kiener;
860-231-8554; info@irejn.org
Web
site: www.meipl.corg
Contact:
Harry Brown, Executive Director; 207-721-0444; harry@meipl.org
Web
site: www.mipandl.org
Contact:
Thomas Nutt-Powell, President; 617-821-6107; MIPandL@MIPandL.org
Web
site: www.riipl.org
Contact:
Howard Brown, Director; 401-267-0029; info@riipl.org
Web
site: www.vtipl.org
Contact:
Betsy Hardy, VTIPL Administrator; 802-434-7307; info@vtipl.org