Climate church, climate world How people of faith must work for change
Book - 2018
Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war -- climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it's time for the church to meet this moral challenge, just as the church addressed previous moral challenges. Antal calls for the church to embrace a new vocation so that future generations might live in harmony with God's creation. After describing how we have created the dangers our planet now faces, Antal urges the church to embrace a new vocation, one focused on collective salvation and an expanded understanding of the ...Golden Rule (Golden Rule 2.0). He suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they prize through new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope. -- Provided by publisher.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield
[2018]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "An Alban Institute book."
- Physical Description
- xx, 221 pages ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781538110683
9781538110690
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Earth Is the Lord's, Not Ours to Wreck: Imperatives for a New Moral Era
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 1. The Situation In Which We Find Ourselves
- What Have We Done?
- Taking Responsibility-The Anthropocene
- How Long Have We Known?
- Are We Paying Attention?
- What's at Stake? How Urgent Is the Crisis?
- Are We Choosing Extinction?
- We're All In This Together
- We Already Have Everything We Need
- Forward Momentum
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 2. A Loving God for a Broken World
- Finding God in a Broken World
- Should We Try to Keep Our Hearts from Breaking?
- Gratitude for a God of Love
- How Do We Remain Faithful?
- Julian Bond's Testimony in Handcuffs
- The Mine and the Snow Geese-A Story for Our Time
- The Story of the Mine and the Snow Geese: A. Postscript
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- Interlude: If We Fail to Heed Our Calling
- A Letter from a Pastor to Her Congregation on the Occasion of the Closing of the Church on Ash Wednesday 2070
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 3. The Church's Vocation Today
- What's Church For?
- History's Lessons for an Unprecedented Time
- With God, There Are No Externalities
- God Calls Communities, Not Just Individuals ... We All Live at the Same Address
- Our Covenant With God: For All Time-With All Creatures
- Golden Rule 2.0
- Our Children's Trust
- Confronting the End of Continuity
- A Kairos Moment-Time for a Moral Intervention
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 4. The Marks of the Church in a Climate Crisis World
- Our Role as Keepers of Continuity
- Building Resilient Communities
- It's Not Just About Me: From Personal to Communal Salvation
- Step 1: Confess Complicity; Step 2: Change the System
- Embracing Spiritual Progress in Place of Material Progress
- Sacrifice and Sharing as Guiding Virtues
- Embracing Moral Interdependence
- Global Warming Intensifies All Forms of Injustice
- Confront the Powers and Principalities
- Sharing Our Fears and Hopes: Empowering Action
- Truth and Reconciliation Conversations in Every House of Worship
- Civil Disobedience-the Church Acts on Its Conscience
- A Repurposed Church for a New Moral Era
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 5. Discipleship: Reorienting What We Prize
- Resilience in Place of Growth
- Collaboration in Place of Consumption
- Wisdom in Place of Progress
- Balance in Place of Addiction
- Moderation in Place of Excess
- Vision in Place of Convenience
- Accountability in Place of Disregard
- Self-Giving Love in Place of Self-Centered Fear
- Civil Disobedience and Discipleship
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 6. Worship as a Pathway to Freedom
- How Much Is Enough? Climate Talk in Church
- The First Announcement at Every Church Service
- Invite Weekly Testimonies
- Transform Familiar Liturgies and Create New Ones
- Organize and Host a Climate Revival
- Worship that Includes All Creatures
- Ordination Vows and New Life in the Anthropocene
- If Earth Were a Sacrament, How Would We Treat It?
- Undomesticating Worship
- Taking Liturgy to the Street, the Pipeline, and the Tracks
- Conclusion
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 7. Prophetic Preaching: Freeing the Pulpit from Fear
- Called to Preach on Climate Change
- Why Preaching on Climate Change Matters
- The Church Was Born for This
- Pastors Must Prepare Their Hearts
- Cultivating Courage-'Be Not Afraid"
- Offer Hope-We Are Called to Change the Story
- The Theological Foundation for Preaching on Climate Change
- Preaching on Climate Change- Ten Considerations
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 8. Witnessing Together: Communal Action Can Free Us from Fear
- Not the Vocation I Started With
- What Is Witnessing?
- Making Civil Disobedience a Normative Expression of Christian Disciple ship
- Driven by Love and Gratitude with Fear as a Catalyst
- Divestment: Revoking the Social License to Wreck Creation
- A New Take on Fiduciary Accountability
- A Global Commons-End the Ownership of Nature
- Building the Kingdom of God: Society Based on 'The Common Good"
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- 9. Living Hope-Filled Lives in a Climate Crisis World
- Not Optimism ... But Hope
- Facing Reality-A Precondition of Hope
- Expressing Grief-A Precondition of Hope
- Acknowledging the Existential Threat of Climate Change
- The Conviction of Things Not Seeable
- The Conviction of Things Not Seen-Telling a New Story of Hope
- Living a New Story of Hope
- Spiritual Practices for Cultivating Hope
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- Epilogue
- Imagine: A Message to the Church-Presented by a Teenager in 2100
- Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection
- Appendix
- Preaching Suggestions for a Climate Crisis World
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author