Friday, January 5, 2018

CCC 1-18 Winter Reading Suggestions

 Creation Corner Column, January 2018

                                 Winter 2018 Reading Suggestions

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." Psalm 118:24

Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love..  Elizabeth A. Johnson.
Birth of a New Earth: The Radical Politics of Environmentalism.  Adrian Parr.
Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology.  Douglas E. Christie.
A Child's Book of Animal Poems and Blessings.  Eliza Blanchard, collector. Joyce Hesselberth,    
     illustrator.
Christians and the Environment: A Guide for Personal Reflection and Group Discussion.  Sojourners   eBook.
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis.  T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, et al.
Climate Change and the Health of Nations.  Anthony J. McMichael.
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet.  Michael Bloomberg and  Carl Pope. 
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival.  Robert J. Lifton.
Creatures Born of Mud and Slime: The Wonder and Complexity of Spontaneous Generation.  Daryn Lehoux.
Deep Woods, Wild Waters: A Memoir.  Douglas Woods.
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver.  Mary Oliver.
Dinner with Darwin: Food, Drink, and Evolution.  Jonathan Silvertown.
Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse.  David Orr.
Earth Community, Earth Ethics.  Larry Rasmussen.
Eco-Lutheranism: Lutheran Perspectives on Ecology.  Karla G. Bohmbach and Shauna K. Hannan, editors.
Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime.  Bruno Latour.
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling.  Andrew J. Hoffman.
For the Beauty of the Earth: Daily Devotions Exploring Creation. Kathrin Burleson, watercolorist.     Episcopal Church voices,  Compilation/Forward Movement.org.
The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity.  Willis Jenkins.
Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change. Stephen Nash.
How To Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS.  David France.
Inheritors of the Earth.  Chris D. Thomas.
The Journal 1837-1861, Henry David Thoreau.  Edited by Damion Searls.
Making the Most of the Anthropocene: Facing the Future.  Mark Denny.
The Meaning of Human Existence.  E. O. Wilson.
The New Cosmic Story: Inside Our Awakening Universe.  John F. Haught.
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative.  Florence Williams.
Nature's Fabric: Leaves in Science and Culture.  David Lee.
On the Trail: A History of American Hiking.  Silas Chamerlin.
On Trails: An Exploration.  Robert Moor.
Opening the Book of Nature.  Fred Krueger.
Pilgrims of the Air: The Passing of the Passenger Pigeons.  John Wilson Foster.
Pioneers of Ecological Humanism: Mumford, Dubos and Bookchin.  Brian Morris.
Reckoning With Apocalypse: Time To Turn Around.  Dale Aukerman.
The Secret Life of Cows.  Rosamund Young.
The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It.  Shawn Otto.
We Are Home: A Spirituality of the Environment.  Shannon Jung (1993).
Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science.  Carey Gillam.

Titles by Richard Cartwright Austin (Presbyterian Church USA):

Baptized Into Wilderness.
Beauty of the Lord.
Hope for the Land.
Reclaiming America.
Spoil: A Moral Study of Strip Mining for Coal.

Other:

The Best of Nature---25 Years (DVD). PBS Nature series first 25 years, Lynn Sherr, host.
Food Chains DVD documentary (2014).  Eric Schlosser and Eva Longoria.
For the Beauty of the Earth: Celebrating Creation.  CD, Gabriel V brass ensemble.

"Climate and Creation: An interfaith conversation about religion in the Anthropocene."  Pastor Don Mackenzie (United Church of Christ) with Rabbi Ted Falcon and Imam Jamal Rahman. Orion magazine, May/June 2017. 

"The Ecology of Prayer: Faith and resistance in the age of climate change."  Fred Bahnson, School of Divinity, Wake Forest University. Orion magazine, Thirty-fifth anniversary issue, 2017.

                         "The Earth Belongs to God...and Everything in it."  Psalm 24:1.