"Wonderfully penned meditations at the simple questions Christianity - and humanity - now face" - Professor Larry Rasmussen, writer of Earth Honoring religion: spiritual Ethics in a brand new Key.

"Informed via wealthy attract non secular secret, voiced in poetic imagery and cadence… deals thick attentiveness to the area" - Professor Walter Brueggemann, writer of God, Neighbor, Empire: the surplus of Divine constancy and the Command of universal Good

"Seeker and visionary biblical student, Kristin Swenson blows previous petrified Christian traditions to polish gentle on a profoundly radical new option to adventure God" - Stephanie Pearson, contributing editor, Outside magazine.

"Calls us to heal and be healed... clean and poetic... opens a direction for pilgrims looking new methods of seeing and residing with religion at the earth." Professor Cliff Edwards, writer of Van Gogh and God: an inventive non secular Quest

"...Motivates and empowers readers to stretch principles of God as they care, in love and awe, for the earth." - Reverend Pat Watkins, United Methodist Missionary for the Care of God's Creation

What occurs if we think the Jesus of Christian theology to be discovered within the nonhuman wildlife round us? uncomplicated to Christian trust is the suggestion that God, the author of all, inhabited the earth as a way to name to us. God of Earth embraces this principal premise of Christianity - Jesus as either absolutely divine and completely human - after which enables the prospect that one of these Jesus needn't be constrained to a human guy. What if Jesus have been "God of earth" - not just over earth but in addition in and during it? As Swenson tracks that question during the cycle of a church yr, she invitations readers to think again our courting to the nonhuman wildlife and so event new dimensions of the sacred and new chances for desire and healing.