EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Fifteen, Number Three May / June 2006 Resources Sanctuary For All Life: The Cowbalah of Jim Corbett by Jim Corbett (2005: Howling Dog Press) From a review by Jim Burklo. “Sanctuary for All Life” might be described as a theology and practice of Sabbath… a year-round sabbath that re-integrates humanity into deep communion with all life. A Sabbath with a haunting call for us to return to what Corbett calls the “cimarron” (Spanish for feral livestock) way of true freedom through re-integration into the natural order. Corbett microcosmically explored the challenges of living and ranching in harmony with his homeland in Arizona. In so doing he modeled what it will take for the whole human family to go “cimarron” and live in harmonious communion with all life Corbett indicted capitalism for its half-hearted embrace of the “free market.” Nowhere was this better exemplified for Corbett than through the Western cattle industry’s reduction of cows to cash, which has resulted in wholesale degradation of rangelands and unholy treatment of animals. The real idolaters aren’t the biblical apostates adoring golden images; “…it is market morality that worships the golden calf, as a commodity, in the name of profits and property.” (p 249) $24.95 from Howling Dog Press, PO Box 853, Berthoud, CO 80513-0853; www.howlingdogpress.com Home     Table of Contents