8 Ecotheology Titles for Your Bookshelf

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climate change, climate justice, eco-justice, ecology, Fortress Press, Hilda P. Koster, Planetary Solidarity

Read a few of my books that deal with Eco-theology and eco-justice.

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Fortress Press – Huge Spring 2020 Theology Ebook Sale!

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church, creation, ebook, ecology, feminist theology, Fortress Press, Gender, Hilda P. Koster, Holy Spirit, Homebrewed Christianity Guide to the Holy Spirit, Intersectional Theology, Planetary Solidarity, sale, Susan M. Shaw

Thank you Englewood Review of Books for reminding of the ebook sate happening at Fortress Press.

    

Planetary Solidarity Book Panel at AAR/SBL

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We are so excited to have an AAR/SBL book panel on our latest co-edited book, Planetary Solidarity (co-edited with Hilda P. Koster).

Christian Spirituality Unit and SBL Ecological Hermeneutics Unit

Paris Attacks, COP21 and the WCC: Embracing the Other

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Statue by Auguste Rodin in the gardens of Musée Rodin, Paris. Photo: Renaud Camus

COP21 will be held in Paris from Nov 30 to Dec 11, 2015. I am planning to attend with the World Council of Churches (WCC) and Sojourners. This is such an important meeting. Keep COP21 and Paris in your prayers.

 

Below is my latest post for the World Council of Churches’ Pilgrimage of Peace and Justice Blog Site. It is also reposted on Huffington. Please share it.

COP21 Is Coming. What Will World Leaders Talk About?

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I am scheduled to attend COP21 in Paris in 2 weeks with the World Council of Churches and Sojourners.

Here is my latest for Sojourner’s blog, “COP21 Is Coming. What Will World Leaders Talk About?” Please do share it. It is posted here.

WATER: July 10 Teleconference with Grace Ji-Sun Kim

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WATER (Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual) has invited me to participate in a Teleconference.  The Teleconference will be on my third book, “Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit” Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 1 pm – 2 pm EDT.  It is free but you must register (see below).  All are welcome.

Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s theological interest is in the area of Constructive Theology, Feminist Theology, and Asian Theology. Her teaching and research center on giving a voice to the marginalized and

Revocatus Meza: Bird Watching

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Some of the students that I teach come from all over the world.  One of my former students is from Tanzania, Revocatus Meza.  He recently wrote this very interesting piece for the DailyNews.  I am reposting here with permission.  It is called, “Bird Watching: Why Wonders Never Cease“.

BIRD WATCHING: WONDERS WILL NEVER CEASE

By Revocatus Meza, recently in Mpanda, Katavi.

Will Disregard for Environment Lead to Destruction?

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One concrete mission of the church is to model, endorse and promote life by revering the world and its entire people and by turning back the kind of uncritical exploitation, which arrived with the modern age, Kim writes.

This is my column for EthicsDaily.com to celebrate Earth Day (April 22, 2013).

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s book “Colonialism, Han and the Transformative Spirit.” Another excerpt appeared previously.

Contrary to our personal belief, it appears that money has little effect on happiness. Rather, conspicuous

EthicsDaily.com: “Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit”

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Decent, fair-minded persons like us benefit by demanding cheap goods and produce, which simultaneously drives jobs overseas where no labor regulations exist, and near-slave labor conditions are prevalent, Kim says.

This is a repost of my latest column for Ethicsdaily.com.

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Grace Ji-Sun Kim’s book “Colonialism, Han and the Transformative Spirit.”

We live in a global economy where we affect people in poor lands as directly as we affect the poor within our own country, and we are unaware of our culpability.

Moravian College Lecture: “Exploitation, Consumerism & Eco-Justice”

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Colonialism Han and the Tranformative Spirit, consumption, Don St. John, eco-justice, ecology, exploitation, grace ji-sun kim, Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College, Moravian Theological Seminary, religion department, sustainability

I was invited by Moravian College’s Religion Department to give a lecture entitled, “Exploitation, Consumerism, and Eco-Justice”   to fit the college’s “In Focus” theme this year on “Sustainability” (April 2, 2013).  I have given lots of lectures and talks in the past, but for some reason, I was really nervous all day before my 7p.m. lecture.  A colleague said to me at noon that ‘if I was a good procrastinator, I wouldn’t be nervous until evening….”