Amidst all the challenging environmental news of our time we need causes for renewing hope. The work of so many people, engaged scholars and theologians, along with religious environmentalists, is a large part of this tapestry of regaining hope. For there is emerging both a new field of religion and ecology within academia, and a potent new force of religious environmental activism around the world. There are now 30 graduate programmes in religion and ecology in North America, and the encyclical of Pope Francis, Laudato si’, is a great inspiration to eco-justice movements with its ...

 

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