Climate Church, Climate World

Jim Antal

doi:10.5771/9781538178911

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-5381-7889-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-5381-7891-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 240
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. The Earth Is the Lord’s, Not Ours to Wreck: Imperatives for a New Moral Era No access
2. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
3. Notes No access
1. What Have We Done? No access
2. Taking Responsibility—The Anthropocene No access
3. How Long Have We Known? No access
4. Are We Paying Attention? No access
5. What’s at Stake? How Urgent Is the Crisis? No access
6. Are We Choosing Extinction? No access
7. We’re All in This Together No access
8. We Already Have Everything We Need No access
9. Forward Momentum No access
10. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
11. Notes No access
1. Finding God in a Broken World No access
2. Should We Try to Keep Our Hearts from Breaking? No access
3. Gratitude for a God of Love No access
4. How Do We Remain Faithful? No access
5. Julian Bond’s Testimony in Handcuffs No access
6. The Mine and the Snow Geese—A Story for Our Time No access
7. The Story of the Mine and the Snow Geese: A Postscript No access
8. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
9. Notes No access
1. A Letter from a Pastor to Her Congregation on the Occasion of theClosing of the Church on Ash Wednesday 2070 No access
2. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
3. Notes No access
1. What’s Church For? No access
2. History’s Lessons for an Unprecedented Time No access
3. With God, There Are No Externalities No access
4. God Calls Communities, Not Just Individuals . . . And We All Live at the Same Address No access
5. Our Covenant with God: For All Time—With All Creatures No access
6. Golden Rule 2.0 No access
7. Our Children’s Trust No access
8. Confronting the End of Continuity No access
9. A Kairos Moment—Time for a Moral Intervention No access
10. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
11. Notes No access
1. Our Role as Keepers of Continuity No access
2. Building Resilient Communities No access
3. It’s Not Just About Me: From Personal to Communal Salvation No access
4. Step 1: Confess Complicity; Step 2: Change the System No access
5. Embracing Spiritual Progress in Place of Material Progress No access
6. Sacrifice and Sharing as Guiding Virtues No access
7. Embracing Moral Interdependence No access
8. Global Warming Intensifies All Forms of Injustice No access
9. Confront the Powers and Principalities No access
10. Sharing Our Fears and Hopes: Empowering Action No access
11. Truth and Reconciliation Conversations in Every House of Worship No access
12. Civil Disobedience—the Church Acts on Its Conscience No access
13. A Repurposed Church for a New Moral Era No access
14. Affirming these Marks of the Church in a Covenant No access
15. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
16. Notes No access
1. Resilience in Place of Growth No access
2. Collaboration in Place of Consumption No access
3. Wisdom in Place of Progress No access
4. Balance in Place of Addiction No access
5. Moderation in Place of Excess No access
6. Vision in Place of Convenience No access
7. Accountability in Place of Disregard No access
8. Self-Giving Love in Place of Self-Centered Fear No access
9. Civil Disobedience and Discipleship No access
10. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
11. Notes No access
1. How Much Is Enough? Climate Talk in Church No access
2. The First Announcement at Every Church Service No access
3. Invite Weekly Testimonies No access
4. Transform Familiar Liturgies and Create New Ones No access
5. Organize and Host a Climate Revival No access
6. Worship that Includes All Creatures No access
7. Ordination Vows and New Life in the Anthropocene No access
8. If Earth Were a Sacrament, How Would We Treat It? No access
9. Undomesticating Worship No access
10. Taking Liturgy to the Street, the Pipeline, and the Tracks No access
11. Conclusion No access
12. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
13. Notes No access
1. Called to Preach on Climate Change No access
2. Why Preaching on Climate Change Matters No access
3. The Church Was Born for This No access
4. Pastors Must Prepare Their Hearts No access
5. Cultivating Courage—“Be Not Afraid” No access
6. Offer Hope—We Are Called to Change the Story No access
7. The Theological Foundation for Preaching on Climate Change No access
8. Preaching on Climate Change—Ten Considerations No access
9. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
10. Notes No access
1. Not the Vocation I Started With No access
2. What Is Witnessing? No access
3. Making Civil Disobedience a Normative Expression of Christian Discipleship No access
4. Driven by Love and Gratitude with Fear as a Catalyst No access
5. Divestment: Revoking the Social License to Wreck Creation No access
6. A New Take on Fiduciary Accountability No access
7. A Global Commons—End the Ownership of Nature No access
8. Building the Kingdom of God: Society Based on “The Common Good” No access
9. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
10. Notes No access
1. Finally—A Climate Bill (by another name) Passes No access
2. What Made Congress Act on Climate? No access
3. Truth Forever on the Scaffold No access
4. A New Moral Era—Yes! But Which One? No access
5. Nature Cannot Be Deceived No access
6. Congregations Responding to COVID and Climate No access
7. We’re Paying More Attention to the Climate Crisis No access
8. The Green New Deal—Aspiration Amidst Upheaval No access
9. Youth Cannot Be Ignored No access
10. Imagine If . . . No access
11. What’s a Climate Church? No access
12. Our Generation Has a Vocation—We’re ALL In This Together No access
13. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
14. Notes No access
1. Not Optimism . . . But Hope No access
2. Facing Reality—A Precondition of Hope No access
3. Expressing Grief—A Precondition of Hope No access
4. Acknowledging the Existential Threat of Climate Change No access
5. The Conviction of Things Not Seeable No access
6. The Conviction of Things Not Seen—Telling A New Story of Hope No access
7. Spiritual Practices for Cultivating Hope No access
8. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
9. Notes No access
1. Imagine: A Message to the Church—Presented by a Teenager in 2100 No access
2. Questions for Group Discussion and Further Reflection No access
3. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Further Reading No access Pages 219 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 238
About the Author No access Pages 239 - 240