Book Corner

How can we cease being the chaplains to capitalism and start seriously to address our climate crises?

What if we act as if we love the future?

This book reads like an adventure story, with intrepid military officials trying to conquer the ice and with scientists making important new discoveries, but its message about disappearing ice is also an important one as collectively we try to chart a sustainable path to the future.

“The object of this book is to provide you, the modern-day human, with resources to live a more natural and spiritual life.”

Not the End of the World aims to relieve us from that discouragement by showing all the ways that humanity is now doing a much better job than is widely understood in addressing the monumental environmental issues that face us, including climate change

“First Nations people remain on the front lines in defending what biodiversity remains on Mother Earth, and they need our prayers and supportive actions.”

We have tried to heal the environment, but we have done little to address the engine that is driving environmental harm

For anyone who needs a little hope for the future of this planet on which we live

The author calls attention to native American views on the earth and environment, and how her indigenous heritage reframes her view of God

People of every place and time share one home, and the task of looking after it

Imagine wilderness as a place to be protected, loved, and shared

The Covenant of Water is a joy to read, with an abundance of passages that are deeply affecting.

Our grandchildren, and great grandchildren et cetera, will arguably be better served by such an understanding to ground their Great Work. And Christ's church will be so, as well.

The impact it has on the most poor and vulnerable among us, as well as the environment in its entirety

Werner uses the term kin-dom of God rather than kingdom, to show that all things, living, plant, animal, waters, mountains, rocks, all are our kin, all part of God’s creation and caring presence. 

“the big surprise in writing this book has been discovering not only how easily and quickly heat can kill you, but what a powerful reminder it is of how deeply connected we are to one another and all living things.”

We need to take personal stock on how we live our lives and relate to each other.  Taking care of the planet will naturally follow. 

Yong’s book gives us powerful insights into the magnificence of the world around us

The boreal stretches from northern Europe, Russia, Alaska, Canada, and into Greenland. It is the second largest biom on earth, after the oceans, the lung of the earth more impactful than any other forest.

Community-Based Social Marketing acknowledges the difficulties of making changes and offers strategies and ways of thinking that help with change

Increasing our efforts to participate in and encourage locally produced farm products is vital.

Regenerative agriculture and the role it must play if the Earth’s human population is to adequately address the looming climate crisis.

This book is the best example I have read which clearly reveals the intersection of racism and the environment regarding First Nations people.

“Do not go left.  Do not go right.  Go deeper.”

Through poetry, drawings, prayers and scripture readings, she calls upon the reader to “enjoy nature’s wonders every day.”

Perhaps if we sit still and silently in the natural world, we will begin to understand that it is sacred because God is everywhere present in it.

She powerfully and anecdotally brings together the threat of climate change and how it affects real people, threatening, not only their way of life, but their very lives

This book was a journey through the history of our nation on many levels, including our regard for nature, environment and the threats that have accrued throughout that history.

we can destroy, but also We can decide not to destroy.

The Shoshone elder was right, we have much to learn from Native spirituality and way of life. Will we ever humble ourselves to begin that learning process?

We cannot afford to be paralyzed by fear or shame. We must act, with power, love, and a sound mind. Together we can save ourselves.

We need to listen to the voices of the beasts, the trees, all of nature, to understand and advocate for the entire creation. 

Is climate change not a moral challenge?

Looking for ideas for a book group in your church or community?

The title of Watt-Coutier’s book might resonate with us who live in northern Minnesota, but others might ask, who wants that right?

“Being concerned about the environment is a biblically mandated command, and acting to rescue creation….is a Christian obligation,”

Love is a theme throughout Ilia’s writing, because it is the essence of the living God.

Christians [should] have always known this, because an incarnate God is a world-loving God; but now it takes on new meaning and depth as we realize the radical interrelationship and interdependence of all forms of life. . . .