FORTRESS PRESS, U.S.

The Bible can be hazardous to ones health if it is read with faulty expectations. Writing with insight, compassion, and wit, Russell Pregeant shows that reading the Bible without interpretation is impossible; the right question is which assumptions are most appropriate to the Bible and our reasons for taking it up.

Uncovers the evasions - personal, social, religious, and even theological - by which we skirt the sharp challenge that the Cross and suffering love pose to a culture, lifestyle, and economy that avoid suffering and evade love. The author challenges Christian's to embrace Jesus' cross to find our own resurrection.

How can Christian congregations deepen awareness of and express their concern for the health of creation through worship and proclamation? This book offers congregational leaders a host of biblical and liturgical resources to guide people into deeper connection with our imperiled Earth through a yearly observance of a new Season of Creation.