by Laura Duhan-Kaplan (Editor), Anne-Marie Ellithorpe (Editor), Harry O. Maier (Editor)
Global challenges fill the news today. It's not always easy to balance fear with hope. That's why this book points to resources for optimism and action. A diverse group of scholars draw on Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Māori traditions to describe challenges and hopes. They recognize the ruptures of militarism, trauma, colonialism, religious nationalism, climate change, and more. But they also describe the healing power of communal action, spiritual practices, biblical literature, and the arts.
Author Biography
Laura Duhan-Kaplan is director of inter-religious studies and professor of Jewish studies at Vancouver School of Theology. She is author of Mouth of the Donkey: Re-imagining Biblical Animals (2021).
Anne-Marie Ellithorpe is research associate at Vancouver School of Theology and co-chair of the Religious Reflections on Friendship unit of the American Academy of Religion. She is author of Towards Friendship-Shaped Communities: A Practical Theology of Friendship (2022).
Harry O. Maier is professor of New Testament and early Christian studies at Vancouver School of Theology and research fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is author of Apocalypse Recalled: The Book of Revelation after Christendom (2004).