Resources

EARTHKEEPING NEWS
A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY

Volume Three, Number Five
May/June 1994

Resources

LISTEN TO THE CRYING OF THE EARTH: Cultivating Creation Communities, by Alvin Pitcher ($13.95) 1993, Pilgrim Press, 700 Prospect Ave., Cleveland OH 44115. Explores formation of congregation or neighborhood based Creation Communities as practical, do-able and necessary responses to the ecological crisis.

ETHICS AND AGENDA 21: Moral Implications of a Global Consensus, edited by Noel J. Brown and Pierre Quiblier, United Nations Environment Programme, 1994; copies available from UN Publications Sales Section, Room DC2-853, Dept. 041D, New York NY 10017; (212) 962-3489. Essays by eighteen leading environmental philosophers, theologians, ecologists and scientists address the ethical issues posed by Agenda 21 from the perspectives of sociology and economics, science and technology, religion and spirituality.

TO HEAL THE EARTH: A Theology of Ecology, by Frederick Quinn, 1994, Upper Room Books, 1908 Grand Ave., PO Box 189, Nashville TN 37202-0189; A resource book for congregations including: the Bible and Ecology; Ecology and the Christian Church; Ecology and the Church Today; Glossary; An Action Plan for Local Churches; Worship Possibilities; and Organizational Resources.

ECOTHEOLOGY: Insights from South and North, edited by David Hallman ($16.90 plus $2.90 postage), World Council of Churches, 475 Riverside Dr., New York NY 10115, (212) 870-3340; or WCC Distribution Center, Rt. 222 & Sharadin Rd., Kutztown PA 19530. Essays include the nature of the crisis, points of agreement and disagreement between North and South hemispheres, challenges to theological understandings, eco-feminist perspectives, biblical analyses and pastoral and ethical implications.

A CATALOGUE OF VIDEO RESOURCES ON ECOLOGY AND SPIRITUALITY ($8.00), by Lou Niznik, Earth Communications, 15726 Ashland Drive, Laurel MD 20707, (301) 498-2553. Over 200 videotapes on ecology, religion and spirituality, including major conferences, interviews and seminars; organized into an outline of topics, alphabetical list of titles, list of principal speakers, addresses and phone numbers of over 100 sources of tapes and other information.

FOR JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE:
VOICE OF THE TREES, the quarterly newspaper of Shomrei Adamah/Keepers of the Earth, the Jewish environmental organization. Shomrei Adamah revives and integrates the 3,000 year old environmental ethic of Judaism with the engagement of Jewish faith communities in environmental affairs. Membership, $9 student and senior, $36 ally. For more information write Shomrei Adamah, 804 C, 5500 Wissahickon Ave. Philadelphia PA 19144.