spring 2009
Is God Green?

Nurturing our spiritual lives has implications for how we care for the earth and its resources. This issue explores the correlation between God’s love for creation and our loving response to God. As people of faith we can enter into the conversation from a perspective that is spiritually motivated even if we don’t fully comprehend or appreciate the rhetoric of big business and oil companies, environmentalists and conservationists, celebrities and heads of state. It all begins with Genesis.

Download the Spring 2009 issue of Hungryhearts, the Quarterly Journal of Reformed Spirituality.

Spring 2009 Bonus Material

Download the Reader’s Guide for this issue.

Related camps and conferences: Montreat Conference Center and Ghost Ranch.

For Further Study
Download a bibliography of books and articles that expand on the connection between caring for creation and keeping Sabbath.

There Will Be a New Creation, a hymn
David Gambrell, associate for Worship in the General Assembly Mission Council’s Office of Theology and Worship, composed the lyrics for this hymn. The lyrics are based on Isaiah 65 and set to the tune “Rathbun.”

God’s Secret Employees
In this article Diane Karay Tripp gives us some insight into God’s view of animals. Diane is a writer and minister of Word and Sacrament for the PC(USA). Her new book, Trusted Voices: Spiritual Wisdom from Lost Generations of Women (2009), is published by Witherspoon Press. Order from Presbyterian Marketplace .

Green Faith: Training Religious Leaders for Environmental Leadership
Martha Gilliss shares her experience as a “Green Faith Fellow.” As an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church, Martha joins other lay and clergy leaders from across faith traditions who were invited to share together in a religiously-based training program focused on environmental leadership.

Eco-prayer
In “Touching the Web of Life: An Ecology of Christian Prayer,” author Sam Hamilton-Poore offers two suggestions for deepening our ecological awareness through prayer. Here is a third suggestion he describes as “Expanding Circles.”

Creation Sunday
Roy W. Howard, pastor of Saint Mark Presbyterian Church in Rockville, Maryland, shares the sermon he delivered on April 19, 2009. This Sunday is designated as “Creation Sunday” in the Presbyterian Planning Calendar.

Book review of Earth Gospel
Rebecca Bradburn Langer writes a book review of Earth Gospel: A Guide to Prayer for God’s Creation. She also shares on experience of using this book in a small group Bible study. Rebecca is parish associate for Spirituality and Global Mission at Riverside Presbyterian Church in Jacksonville, Florida. She is also adjunct faculty for the diploma in the Art of Spiritual Direction program at San Francisco Theological Seminary.

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