The Space Between Church and Not-Church

by Fairless, Caroline S.; Duncan, David James

• ISBN13: 9780761854074
• ISBN10: 076185407X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-04
• Publisher: Hamilton Books

Summary

Healing our planet is a relational and spirit-centered process, requiring humans to reclaim our appropriate place among the earth community, intrinsic to the integrity of the whole. This book invites readers to release the human-centered biblical justifications of dominion and rule for the sake of a natural web morality, which insists on the sacramental nature of all life and to create an intersection of church people and not-church people, who will be able to jointly develop sacred rituals for the planet's healing. The seven-step process awakens our hearts to the needs of our imperiled planet and calls us to servant action from our place within the biotic community.

Author Biography

Caroline S. Fairless, ordained in the Episcopal church in 1989, is the author of Confessions of a Fake Priest; Children at Worship: Congregations in Bloom; and Hambone, a story for children. Fairless and her husband, Jim Sims, founded the Center for Children at Worship in 1999 and have worked across denominations in the United States, Canada, and England to help congregations develop worship that is fully inclusive of all ages.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 3
To Have Dominion Over Them: Our Human-Centered Universe	p. 19
	p. 35
Reimagining Our Moral Compass	p. 37
Fostering a Sense of Place in a Biocentric Web	p. 53
Leadership in a Biocentric World	p. 67
	p. 75
A Certain Kind of Knowing	p. 77
Art and Storytelling in the Intersection	p. 85
Earth, Water, Fire, and Air: The Sacramental Nature of the Universe	p. 99
Sacred Ritual in the Intersection	p. 111
	p. 131
The Way Forward: The Way of the Welcome Guest	p. 133
Endnotes	p. 143
Glossary	p. 151
Index	p. 153
About the Author	p. 159
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