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The call to care for creation is a central part of our discipleship as followers of Jesus Christ. However, language and imagery of the earth is often absent in our worship services. This book helps reconnect our commitment to creation care with our life of discipleship. The process includes helping congregational members name ways that they are involved in caring for creation and encouraging them to see ways that these practices are related to Christian faith, and in doing so, nurturing the life of our communities while fostering our identity as those who care for the earth. Central to the process of reconnecting holy discipleship with earth stewardship is the development and rediscovery of biblical imagery and language that will support our care of creation and shape our prayers. As our actions are more closely connected to the language of our prayers, praying and acting will inform and enrich each other. This book also includes custom liturgies that highlight earth care, prayerfully prepared for the major festivals of the church year.

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A clear and comprehensive guide for reorienting worship throughout the liturgical year in ways that are at once Earth-healing and community building. Based in good scholarship and replete with rich examples and resources, this book gives leaders what they need for vital discipleship nurtured in down-to-earth liturgy. -- Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary Once again, Paul Galbreath proves himself a clear, practical guide to the way that liturgical practice can shape more faithful living in the world. This time, his focus is care for the earth: how might Christian worship, historically rooted in the cycle of seasons, in growth, death, and rebirth, cultivate in us greater care for God's wondrous, vulnerable creation? -- Martha Moore-Keish, Associate Professor of Theology, Columbia Theological Seminary In the final book of his trilogy, Paul Galbreath breaks new ground and help us gain a desperately needed awareness of our faith, one that makes the language of our prayers and songs honor and care deeply for Pacha Mama, our home, God's creation. The liturgical theology, Biblical interpretation and many liturgies present in this book will surely be a great resource for those who want to take the Christian faith seriously! -- Claudio Carvalhaes, Associate Professor of Liturgy and Worship, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia

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Paul Galbreath is professor of worship and preaching at Union Presbyterian Seminary. As an ordained Presbyterian teaching elder, Galbreath has served congregations in Clatskanie, Woodburn, and Warrenton, Oregon as well as in Tacoma, Washington. He has also written Leading from the Table and Leading through the Water.

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