Resource List for Caring for Creation
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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. Paul. The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Fortress, 1985)
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?)
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)
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)
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
4/20/2008