Hope for Eco-Activists: Discovering an Environmental Faith

Nov 2012—Jan 2013 Issue Table of Contents

Open­ing Editorials

• “Envi­ron­men­tal Hope: A Bet­ter Approach for a Tougher Cli­mate” by Patrick David Heery
• “Sacred Heal­ing for Griev­ing Earth-Justice Seek­ers” by Diane Waddell

Eco-Spirituality

• “A Sacra­men­tal Uni­verse” by Larry Rasmussen
• “Eco-Justice is Cre­ation Care: Shift­ing the Foun­da­tions of Eco-Theology to Include Stew­ard­ship, Jus­tice, and Spir­i­tu­al­ity” by Neddy Astudillo
• “The Gospel for the World: A Case for Cre­ation Care” by Nina Voli
• “Grow­ing Holi­ness: Sanc­tity in Our Gar­dens and Shab­bat Meals” by Janet Madden
• “Find­ing Your 24/6 Rhythm in a 24/7 World” by Matthew Sleeth
• “Renew­ing Judaism’s Ancient Envi­ron­men­tal Wis­dom” by Kevin Kleinman
• “Reimag­in­ing the Gospel for Evan­gel­i­cals in an Envi­ron­men­tal Age” by Russ Pierson
• “A Lament for the Earth” by Jes­sica Abell

Eco-Relationships

• “Earth Walk: A Deep Ecol­ogy Per­spec­tive and Cri­tique of the Main­stream Envi­ron­men­tal Move­ment” by David Siegenthaler
• “The Nature Quo­tient: Deep Ecol­ogy and Nature Deficit Dis­or­der” by Stan Adamson
• “Ocean: Deep Won­der, Deep Sor­row, Deep Hope” by William Seaman
• “The Beauty and Messi­ness of Falling in Love with God’s Cre­ation” by Andrew Plocher

Eco-Community

• “What I Crave: To Know Where I Belong—A Short Reflec­tion on Marsh Peri­win­kles, Young Adults, the Church, and Eco-Justice” by Shan­tha Ready Alonso
• “Glimpses of Cre­ative Resis­tance: Eco-Stewards” by Rob Mark
• “Con­gre­ga­tional Envi­ron­men­tal Com­mu­ni­ties: How They Hap­pen and Why They Work” by Genny Rowley
• “Eco­log­i­cal Applied The­ol­ogy: Fer­tile Ground for Inter­faith Growth” by Jes­sica Abell
• “The Green­Faith Fel­low­ship Expe­ri­ence: Cre­at­ing Reli­gious Envi­ron­men­tal Lead­ers” by Harold R. Talbot
• “Devel­op­ing Com­mu­nity Resiliency in Dis­as­ter Recov­ery” by John Robinson

Eco-Justice

• “Glimpses of Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice” by Rebecca Barnes-Davies
• “Envi­ron­ment, Reli­gion, and Race” by Clare Butterfield
• “I am an Eco-Feminist” by Holly Hallman
• “Eco-Justice and the Earth Court” by John Preston
• “Book Review of The Green Zone: The Envi­ron­men­tal Costs of Mil­i­tarism” by Shan­nan Vance-Ocampo

Eco-Living

• “Words Etched in Ash: The Eth­i­cal Dilemma of Inva­sive Species for a Chris­t­ian Ecol­o­gist” by Jef­frey Reed
• “E.D. Goes P.V.: The Jour­ney to Solar Pan­els” by Andy Bell
• Video: Capitol Heights Pres­by­ter­ian Church Installs New Solar Panels

Eco-Art

• “Eco-Feminism: Con­nec­tiv­ity and Cre­ativ­ity” by Abby Mohaupt
• “Wet­lands Advo­cacy Art: South­ern Louisiana Wildlife Paint­ings” by Lau­ren Wright
• “O God, Cre­ator of All Things”—a new hymn by Car­olyn Win­frey Gillette
• Three Songs includ­ing the new “Water Song” by John Pitney
• “Heal­ing Drums in Coastal Louisiana” by Kristina Peterson
• Pho­tos of “Sacred Silence” by Jane Laping
• “Reuse and Rein­ven­tion” pho­tog­ra­phy by Eleanor Bennett
• “On Being a Chris­t­ian, Earth-Caring Poet in Dark Times” by Nancy Cor­son Carter
• “Frag­ile Elo­quence” and other cre­ation poems by John Jackson

Eco-Action & Resources

• Eco-Resources: wor­ship, faith state­ments, links, and rec­om­mended readings.
• Eco-Action: eco-justice and sus­tain­abil­ity action steps, as well as min­istry ideas and rec­om­mended faith-based networks.