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"On earth as it is in heaven"
Embracing human creatureliness in a climate change world
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Created out of nothing means created out of love
To say creation is ex nihilo is to say that divine love is the only power at work in the creation of everything.
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Want to regain young people’s trust? Start treating the earth, and life, as sacred
Our government and business leaders are failing young people by not acting out of the conviction that this world and all its life are sacred and, thus, worthy of our protection and care.
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After COP26: What should Christians do next?
Climate change is not simply a technical, policy or engineering issue. It is above all a moral and spiritual issue in which the meaning and value of all life is on the table…
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Beyond COP26 — a plea for Jubilee
Leaders should adopt a “Jubilee framework” …in a world characterised by climate chaos.
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Learning to say grace
Saying Grace isn’t simply a religious act. It is also a political and economic one..
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Can we live in a world without a Sabbath?
The Creation of an Anthropocene world is the creation of an anti-Sabbath world…
ABC Religion & Ethics Opinion -
The Ground of Hospitality
The Christian Church has multiple saints associated with gardening, farming, and food.
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Climate change and the incarnational nerve
Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?
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Saying Grace
It's a simple gesture to say thank you. But how we express those words and the reason we utter them are far more complex. By Michael Graff
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Preparing for Joy: A Lenten Invitation
Lent is an invitation to honesty and clarity. It can be our preparation for joy because…
Accompanying Guide
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Thinking Theologically About Food
In our modern consumer-orientated world, food has become little more than a commodity that we mindlessly consume…
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All Creatures
Christians have come lately and weakly to the causes of environmental healing and restoration.
Book Chapters
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From a Partnership to a Fidelity Ethic: Framing an Old Story for a New Time
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Creaturely Humility: Placing Humility, Finding Joy
Chapter Four of The Joy of Humility: The Beginning and End of the Virtues
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Thanks for the Dirt: Gratitude As a Basis for Environmental Action
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The Primacy of Love
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Attention and Responsibility: The Work of Prayer
Chapter Six of The Phenomenology of Prayer
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The Witness of Praise – The Hope of Dwelling
Select Academic Journal Articles
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The Trouble with Sustainability
Sustainability has become a status quo concept held captive to market logics that quantify and appropriate places and creatures alike.
Sustainability Special Issue "The Roles of Culture and Values in Sustainable Development"
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Agrarian Ecotheology
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A Priestly Approach to Environmental Theology
Learning to Receive and Give Again the Gifts of Creation
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From Maieutics to Metanoia
Levinas's Understanding of the Philosophical Task
Man and World: An international Philosophical Review 28: 129-144
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Food for Theologians
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The Art of Creaturely Life: A Question of Human Propriety
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The Touch of Humility: An Invitation to Creatureliness
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Saying Grace: Transforming People, Transforming the World
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Vocation in Pianissimo: the loss and recovery of vocation in contemporary life
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Dramas of Love and Dirt Soil and the Salvation of the Earth
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Christian "Theoria Physike"
On Learning to See Creation