"In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters." Genesis 1:1-2

"Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to your life's span? And why are you anxious about clothing? Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor do they spin, yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory did not clothe himself like one of these." Matthew 6:26-29

"We see the despoiling of the environment as nothing less than the degradation of God's gracious gift of creation."

ELCA Statement “Caring for Creation”
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Publications

Useful Texts on Ecology and Theology:    
 
Joseph Sittler.  Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology and Ethics, ed. Peter Bakken and Stephen Bouma-Prediger (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000).

Ivone Gabara. Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999).
 
Sallie McFague.  The Body of God: An Ecological Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1993).
                   ---.   Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1997).
                   ---.    A New Climate for Theology: God, the World, and Global Warming (Fortress, 2008).
 
David M. Rhoads (ed.).   Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet (Continuum, 2007).

James Martin Schramm. Climate Justice: Ethics, Energy, and Public Policy (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010).

Mark I. Wallace.  Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005).
                  ---.Green Christianity: Five Ways to a Sustainable Future (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2009).
 
Karen Baker-Fletcher.  Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1998).
 
Dieter Hessel and Larry Rasmussen (eds.).  Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church's Response (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 2001).
 
Larry Rasmussen, Earth Community, Earth Ethics (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1996).
 
Leonardo Boff.  Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor, trans. Philip Berryman (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1997).
 
Barbara Rossing, The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation (Oxford: Westview Press, 2004).
 
Rosemary Radford Ruether.  Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing (San Francisco: Harper, 1992).

Laura Yordy, Green Witness: Ecology, Ethics, and the Kingdom of God (Cascade Books, 2008)

Norman Wirzba, The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (Oxford, 2007).
 
H. Paul Santmire.  The Travail of Nature: The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985).
                    ---.    Nature Reborn: The Ecological and Cosmic Promise of Christian Theology (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 2000).
                    ---.    Ritualizing Nature: Renewing Christian Liturgy in a Time of Crisis (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008).
 
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Mountain Trees by Carolyn Brostrom