Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-15-2011
Abstract
Excerpt: "For that reason, I approached Walking Gently on the Earth with a healthy sense of skepticism, ready to be preached at again regarding the choices I’ve made about my family and lifestyle. Yet a few pages into Lisa Graham McMinn’s new book, I knew this exploration of sustainability would be different: more gentle, as the title itself suggests. McMinn, along with her daughter and co-writer Megan Anna Neff, examines the ways we can more readily nurture “God’s good gift”—that is, the earth and everything in it— through what McMinn calls “an ethic of care.” Although McMinn and Neff challenge readers to be more considerate of the earth and its people, their challenge is measured by the sense that living sustainably should not create a heavy burden to be suffered through, but instead provide a richer existence, one worth celebrating."
Recommended Citation
Mock, Melanie Springer, "Book Review: Walking Gently on the Earth" (2011). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 106.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/106
Comments
Originally published in Ruminate (Summer 2011).
https://www.ruminatemagazine.com/blogs/ruminate-blog/walking-gently-on-the-earth