Living Pulpit

The Earth is… The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God. — St. John Damascene (749 AD) Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness. — Hildegard of Bingen In science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — C.S. Lewis The Earth is what we all have in common.

Home » Editorial, Headlines Greetings from the Editor Submitted by Moses Biney on July 16, 2021 – 11:08 pmNo Comment I want to begin my introductory editorial comments with the expression of much gratitude to all my predecessors, especially the most immediate, Rev. Dr. Jin Hee Han whose calm yet compelling call to me to serve as General Editor I could not decline.

Miroslav Volf and Matthew Croasmun. For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2019. Pp 196. ISBN 978-1-58743-401-3. $21.99 hardback. For the Life aims to motivate us to focus our theology on the promotion of the “flourishing life.” The “flourishing life” is the “good life” of classical philosophy and the branch of Christian theology with which it is in conversation, broadened to encompass all humans and all creation.

Home » Table of Contents Table of Contents: The Sustainability/Sustainable Earth Issue Submitted by Alet Brown on July 16, 2021 – 11:07 pmNo Comment The Preacher’s Guide on Pesky Passages by Rev. Dr. Jin H. Han Sustainability and Sacrifice: An Eco-Theology of the Cross by Lisa Jarnot Book Review: For the Life of the World: Theology that Makes a Difference by Dr. John W. Herbst Bible Quotes on Sustainable Earth compiled by Rev. Dr. Darla Dee Turlington Quotes on Sustainable Earth compiled by Rev.

“The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it.” –Psalm 24:1 When Professors Mary Tucker and John Green of the Forum on Religion and Ecology (currently at Yale University) were working on a project of collecting data on what world religions had to say about the environment, they were delighted to have sizable tomes of material from every major religion of the world–except Christianity. As it turns out, this religion of the Bible does not just suffer from paucity to offer about nature.

The earth is the Lord’s God called the dry land Earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called Seas. And God saw that it was good. Gen. 1:10 Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. … And God saw that it was good. Gen. 1:11-12 The Lord your God is indeed God in heaven above and on earth below. Josh.

On any given evening in any urban neighborhood in the United States, it is possible to forage through grocery store dumpsters for an array of food worthy of the tables in Solomon’s Temple. Thousands of pounds of fresh bread, fruit, vegetables, and even the occasional gourmet dessert make their way from the store shelves to the curb to garbage trucks to landfill nightly.

Shamans have been known to be one of the foundational healing components to any development of community. Don Jose Ruiz, a Toltec Shaman from Southern Central Mexico, defines a Shaman as a “nagual,” meaning the awakened ones in the Nahuatl language.