Next Sunday is Creation Care Sunday with guest preacher Rev. Nancy Wright and a forum following the service. After we hear the exciting things she’s going to share with us, a good follow-up on our part is to check out the Creature Care section of the BGLibrary. I grabbed a few books last week and I’d like to recommend them.
The first is Everyone Must Eat: Food Sustainability, and Ministry by Mark L. Yackel-Juleen. Here’s the back cover blurb to entice you into the text: “Rural contexts are often overlooked, treated as ‘flyover land.’ But because everyone must eat, rural communities and their work in food production are important to the whole of society.” Having spent the first eighteen years of my life growing up on farms, I couldn’t agree more.
The second book I grabbed is A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming by Sallie McFague. McFague has written quite a number of books with various theology themes, but this is her first to focus on our human connection to climate change. Again from the blurb: “At its heart, Sallie McFague maintains, global warming occurs because we lack an appropriate understanding of ourselves as inextricably bound to the planet and its systems.”
A third is The Green Consumer by Joel Makower with John Elkington and Julia Hailes. This one is total practicality, giving helpful information about how to buy products that don’t cost the earth. From baby products to furniture to groceries to appliances and more, the book lists products by brand names, and promises that we can use our spending power to actually make a difference.
I suggest you spend a few minutes looking through titles in our Creation Care section. The topics are intriguing and hopeful. Happy reading!
Dot Kasik