Creation Care Resources

Resources: a series that highlights valuable resources to help you on your journey to better understand and participate in caring for God’s creation

In the wake of Earth Day and in anticipation of Creation Care Sunday, I thought I would share some resources to help you on your journey to care for God’s creation. No one post can share the breadth of resources that are out there. Instead of making an exhaustive list (in this forum), I would like to highlight a few important resources.

Books:

Here are a couple of my favorite creation care books:

For the Beauty of the Earth by Steven Bouma-Prediger is an excellent book. It is incredibly comprehensive and well worth the time to work through it. I will be doing a full review of the new edition soon.

Our Father’s World by Ed Brown is another excellent resource. The first part of this book is about why Christians should care for creation and the second part is about how that is carried out in our mission. This book is clearly written and is very accessible.

Here are a few green living books that I think are great resources to help you live a life that better cares for creation:

The Complete Vegetable & Herb Gardener is an incredible resource that every gardener should have access to. This book helps you with the entire gardening process.  It provides instruction for planning, composting, planting, care, harvesting, and has a large variety of plant profiles.

The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan is one of those books that just makes me so excited. It helps you work through how to squeeze a very productive farm into a small space. It helps you with your garden (including vegetables, herbs, and grains), poultry for eggs and meat, meat and dairy, and much more (including beekeeping, beer making, and foraging in the wild).

The Better World Shopping Guide (2nd edition) by Ellis Jones comes recommended by one of our board members. It actually grades companies in the areas of human rights, the environment, animal protection, community involvement, and social justice. Want to be more thoughtful about what you buy and where you buy it? This is the book for you.

Looking for more books and other resources to help you understand and live out your care for God’s creation? Be sure to visit the Creation Hope Store. By purchasing your resources through our store you can get the items you need and help support our ministry at the same time.

Resource Sharing:

Here are a couple of websites to help you share with others the things God has blessed you with or borrow/ receive items from kind people near you. These post about reusing and sharing talk about them in more detail.

Freecycle – Freecycle is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It’s all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

NeighborGoods – NeighborGoods is the online community where you can save and earn money by sharing stuff with your friends. NeighborGoods members can borrow, lend, rent, sell and buy stuff from their neighbors, saving money and getting more value out of the items they already own.

I hope these resources help you continue moving forward on your journey. This will be a regular post which will highlight valuable resources for you on your journey. If there is anything in particular you are looking for, let us know and we will include available resources for you in upcoming posts.

Note: we will also be putting an extensive list of recommended resources up on  website soon. Stay tuned.

Also consider:

Definitions: Creation Care

Eco Anecdotes: St Mark Presbyterian Church

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