The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary

"This monumental undertaking will pay off for decades to come – maybe centuries, since these concerns aren't going away. The Bible is so woven through with concern for the natural world and the vulnerable who depend on it, and it's high time we recognized that!" -- Bill McKibben
"Worship is the heart of Christian communities, with the lectionary mapping the worship experience. The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary brings worship to the ground, and tunes the worship experience to the groans and energies of Earth. This is a critical resource for preachers, worshippers, and scholars." -- Jione Havea
In this timely and profoundly important volume, The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary offers the church a compelling theological and liturgical response to the intertwined crises of ecological devastation, climate injustice, and spiritual fragmentation. Drawing from biblical scholarship, ecological hermeneutics, liturgical theology, and the wisdom of marginalized and indigenous voices, Robert E. Shore-Goss and Sarah J. Melcher reimagine the Christian lectionary as a formative practice for cultivating ecological consciousness, moral courage, and compassionate solidarity with all creation. This volume challenges the church to recover the deep interconnectedness between worship, justice, and the Earth itself, reminding readers that care for creation is not peripheral to Christian faith, but central to faithful discipleship. At once prophetic, pastoral, and intellectually rigorous, The Canterbury Earth Justice Lectionary is an indispensable resource for scholars, clergy, seminarians, and faith communities seeking to embody a more restorative, compassionate, and hope-filled vision of Christian life and witness in an age of climate emergency. -- Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan