Reflections
Spring 2007

God's Green Earth

CONTENTS

• From the Dean's Desk

• From the Editor: The Great Economy

• Daring to Dream: Religion and the Future of the Earth
  Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

• The Beginnings of a Beautiful Friendship:
  Religion and Environmentalism
  Roger Gottlieb

A Billion Trees, A Singular Voice
Wangari Maathai

Nature and Crate: Making Environmental Issues Matter for Christian Life
Willis Jenkins

How Big Should People Be?
a sermon by Bill McKibben

Earthkeeping and the Bible
Steven Bouma Prediger

Power, Light, and Hope: Fighting a Crisis, One State at a Time
Sally G. Bingham

Avoiding the Great Collision: "We Can Save What Is Left"
James Gustave Speth

NCCC Eco-justice Sermon Award Winner:"From Apocalypse to Genesis"
Janet Parker

Environmental justice and a New American Dream
Jerome Ringo

Uncommon Alliance : Connecting Faith and Environmentalism
Christopher Glenn Sawyer

After Katrina: Searching the Ruins for Resurrection
Ray Waddle

"Everything that Breathes Praises God"
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

New Moral Awakening, or How I Changed My Mind
Richard Cizik

Eco-ethics and Global Citizenship: A View from Central America
Roy May and Carlos Tamez

Vulnerability and Vision in El Salvador
Lisbeth Barahona

How Green Was Our Valley: The Garrison Institute
Jonathan F. P. Rose

Green Discipleship
Larry Rasmussen

PROFILES

Jeanie Graustein, Rachel Holmes, Cads Pryne, David Baumgart Turner

• Wendell Berry, Joy Harjo, Naomi Long Madgett, Mary Oliver, Martha Serpas, Paul Willis

• A Harvest of Selected Books for a Greening Faith
• A Sampling of Websites

 

• Harold W. Attridge, Publisher

• Ray Waddle , Editor

• Peter W. Johnson, Graphic Design, YaleRIS

• John Lindner, Gus Spohn, Senior Advisers

• Elizabeth L. Wilkinson, Poetry Acquisition
• Kate Foley, Circulation Manager

Campbell Harmon, Online Coordinator

Willis Jenkins, Faculty Guest Editor

 

Multimedia:

• The environmental crisis as spiritual and moral crisis (mp3) -- Mary Evelyn Tucker, research scholar and senior lecturer , Yale Divinity School
• Civic restlessness, sustainable communities, and the land (mp3) -- Willis Jenkins, Margaret Farley Assistant Professor of Social Ethics, Yale Divinity School

 

Study Guide:

• Session One: New Language (pdf)

Session Two: Broader Framing (pdf) Session Three: Inpiring Images(pdf) Session Four: Captivating Metaphors(pdf) Session Five: New Stories & Dreams(pdf)