Climate Church, Climate World, Jim Antal
Climate Church, Climate World, Jim Antal
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Climate Church, Climate World
How People of Faith Must Work for Change

Author: Jim Antal, Bill McKibben

Narrator: Jim Denison

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2018

Synopsis

Climate Church, Climate World argues that climate change is the greatest moral challenge humanity has ever faced. Hunger, refugees, poverty, inequality, deadly viruses, war—climate change multiplies all forms of global social injustice. Environmental leader Reverend Jim Antal presents a compelling case that it’s time for the church to meet this moral challenge, just as the church addressed previous moral challenges. Antal calls for the church to embrace a new vocation so that future generations might live in harmony with God’s creation. After describing how we have created the dangers our planet now faces, Antal urges the church to embrace a new vocation, one focused on collective salvation and an expanded understanding of the Golden Rule (Golden Rule 2.0). He suggests ways people of faith can reorient what they prize through new approaches to worship, preaching, witnessing and other spiritual practices that honor creation and cultivate hope.

About Jim Antal

Jim Antal is a denominational leader, award-winning activist, and public theologian. He serves as the national spokesperson on climate change for the United Church of Christ.

About Bill McKibben

Bill McKibben is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.

About Jim Denison

Jim Denison is an Earphones Award winner and a SOVAS Voice Arts Award nominee. He has experience as an actor on a variety of television shows and movies and in regional and national television and radio ads. He holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in Christian studies and spent forty years working full-time in Christian ministry. He is the voice for the popular YouTube channel Top10Archive. A Florida native, he and his wife currently reside in southern Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

It’s difficult to review this book because I’m so conflicted. On the one hand, Antal draws a clear line between theology and science in explaining the catastrophe at hand. He also offers some concrete steps for action. His zeal, while commendable, does not exactly translate to the realities of paris......more

Goodreads review by Robert

Although this book is mostly aimed at the American audience, it is relevant to the rest of us too. I think I had a couple of key take-aways: Don't let the perfect stand in the way of the good. This is important because often so much judgment happens against climate activism from people who want to s......more

Goodreads review by Michael

title: Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change author: Jim Antal date: 2018 publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Jim Antal has written a helpful book addressing an issue that many are afraid to approach. We need more people like this who make the commitment and sacr......more

Goodreads review by Wanda

This book explores what religious communities, of any faith, and especially their leaders, can do to mitigate the coming climate catastrophe. As such, I think it could be helpful. First the good: There are some real, author-tested, suggestions on changing people's attitudes, habits and actions regard......more

Quotes

“Jim Antal shows how the church can engage the urgent moral crisis of climate change. This book will inspire both the courage and conviction people of faith need to provide the leadership necessary to realize God’s dream of a just world in which humanity is reconciled to all of creation.” Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

“If you ever meet Jim Antal, your first thought will be, ‘This man has the energy of a dozen people wrapped up in one body.’ You’ll see his brilliance, his enthusiasm, his focus, and his resilient determination. You’ll also see his faith. You’ll sense all of these qualities in Climate Church, Climate World. You will be drawn from well-written page to page, until you have to put the book down and join the movement to…quite literally…save the world. On top of being brilliant, energetic, and inspiring, Jim Antal is, in my opinion, 100 percent right, and his message is prophetic in the truest sense.” Brian D. McLaren, author of The Great Spiritual Migration

“Even more than an environmental problem, climate change is humanity’s greatest collective moral crisis, and no one understands that better than Reverend Jim Antal. He’s borne witness to its test of our resolve from pulpits, in paddy wagons, and now through this book, which offers recipes for hope (and prescriptions for action) on every page. To people of faith—lay or clergy—who are seeking ways to engage on this great global challenge: Here is your guide.” Michael Brune, executive director, Sierra Club

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