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


Volume Five, Number Five
May/June 1996


Resources

A SourceBook for Earth's Community of Religions, Revised Edition, by Joel Beversluis, Project Editor ($18.95), co-published by Global Education Associates, New York, and CoNexus Press, PO Box 6902, Grand Rapids MI 49516; fax: 616/248-0943. A reference tool in 5 parts: I, texts and portraits of religions, indigenous beliefs, humanism; II , legacies of the parliaments; III, spiritual traditions and world order; IV, listening to voices of children, women, scientists and indigenous people; V, resource guides, reflections, scriptures and prayers.

The Dying of the Trees: The Pandemic in America's Forests, by Charles E. Little ($22.95), Viking Penguin Books, 1995. Environmental analyst and reporter Charles Little documents forest death from a continuing onslaught of industrially induced plagues across USA. A book to read, get angry about, and send to your Congressperson.

This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, edited by Roger S. Gottlieb ($24.95), Routledge, 29 W. 35th St., New York NY 10001. This first comprehensive survey of the critical connections between religion, nature and the environment, in 75 selections, explores how theologians, ecofeminists, and deep ecologists are responding to the environmental crisis and challenging traditional views of selfhood, morality and the Divine.

Keeping the Garden: A Faith Response to God's Creation, by Tim and Donita Wiebe-Neufeld ($14.95), Faith and Life Press, PO Box 347, Newton KS 67114; 800/743-2484. Six session unit in the Generation Why Bible Studies challenges youth to see environmental awareness as a religious issue.


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