So our church has a book reading "club" (for lack of a better word) with a reading list. My husband ordered some of the books, and "For the Beauty of the Earth" by Steven Bouman-Prediger was one of the books. I saw it the day if arrived and "adopted" the book. Wow, right up my alley!
A quote from the introduction: "authentic Christian faith includes care for the earth. Earthkeeping is integral to Christian discipleship."
I'm only just done chapter two, but that was a hard chapter to read. It goes into quite a bit of detail on just how dire the situation is. I was aware of most of the topics, but had no idea just how overwhelming the problems were.
Quote from chapter two: "Exploding population growth, increasing hunger, loss of biodiversity, deforestation, water scarcity and impurity, land degradation, accumulating waste, expanding energy consumption, acid rain, global climate change - such is the long litany of ecological woe. The state of our home planet is not good. The earth is groaning."
Looks like the practical application comes in chapter 8. Hmm...hope I don't get too discouraged before I make it to that point!
