Sharon Delgado - Love in a Time of Climate Change: Honoring Creation, Establishing Justice

Climate change is the greatest challenge weve yet faced as a civilization. Meeting that challenge will require we use both our heads and our hearts. There are many primers that target the former, but fewer that target the latter. And that is why Love in a Time of Climate Change proves such essential reading.
Michael E. Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

This book is an act of witness, and a powerful one. It reminds us that if church is going to mean anything in a time of rapid climate change, its going to have to take on this toughest of all questions.
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation

Solutions to the worlds problems must include the churches if they are to be effective, and the churches must understand these challenges theologically if they are to be mobilized. Sharon Delgado masterfully articulates an unapologetically Wesleyan framework for climate justice and, in doing so, gives the churches the resources necessary to bring about lasting change. This book is a gift to Christians everywhere, one that ultimately extends to all of Gods creation. I highly recommend it.
Jim Winkler, president and general secretary of the National Council of Churches

With wonderfully readable wisdom, Sharon Delgado invites us, Christians and all, to follow her on this honestly hopeful and adventurously holy way to our shared future: to live in love in a perilously changing climate.
Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew Theological School and author of On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process and Cloud of the Impossible

Sharon Delgado makes it clear that we, especially we who stand in the Wesleyan tradition, cannot choose between being scriptural in the fullest sense and activity to save as much as possible from destruction through climate change. There is no tension between biblical preaching and preaching on the overwhelming, life-determining issues surrounding climate change. Lets stop hemming and hawing and work with God to save Gods creation.
John B. Cobb, PhD, Emeritus Professor, Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate School; Founding Co-Director, Center for Process Studies.

Honor the creation. Strive for justice for all our planets creatures both now and in future generations. Sharon Delgado reminds us vividly and forcefully how todays Christians have a responsibility for tomorrows Earth.
Ted Peters, coeditor of Theology and Science and Distinguished Research Professor of Systematic Theology, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary

There is no more important challenge facing creation than the changing climate. Love in a Time of Climate Change gives a thorough understanding of the moral and spiritual implications of the climate crisis and emphasizes the injustice of not addressing the crisis. With love at the center of the conversation, it will motivate readers into taking urgent and serious action that will curtail the most catastrophic effects.
Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham, president of The Regeneration Project, Interfaith Power & Light

Love of God, love of each other, and love of Gods creation are so masterfully intertwined by Sharon Delgado. Easy answers, a checklist of five things we can do to save the planet, are not found here. Delgado calls for a transformation of the world! How audacious to speak of love in an age of climate injustice. But isnt that our job as Christians, to love the world into a new reality? It will be a very difficult job to solve the climate crisis, but Delgado has unlimited hope that, in love, we can do it!
Pat Watkins, Ministry for the Care of Gods Creation

Climate change is already impacting church ministries, from the fight against malaria to disaster relief and recovery. Love in a Time of Climate Change is the book we need now to help us articulate a Christian understanding of the climate crisis and respond with boldness, urgency, and hope.
Jenny Phillips, Fossil Free UMC Founder, minister for Environmental Stewardship and Advocacy, Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist Church

We all know were up against a cliff when it comes to climate change, and that we need a transformation in our culture, politics and personal behavior to protect life on earth. John Wesley understood what it meant to be in need of such a holistic and profound transformation, and Sharon Delgado brings a much-needed Wesleyan urgency and wisdom to bear on this issue. Its an important and eloquent contribution.
The Rev. Fletcher Harper, Executive Director, GreenFaith

Sharon Delgados Love in a Time of Climate Change is a timely and important book that deserves to be read widely by people of faith. Her call for Christians, wherever we may be, to look more closely at the issues of justice and creation care and to live out our faith in a time of climate change challenges us all.
Nicky Bull, chair of Operation Noah (UK)

This book is dedicated to the courageous souls who are living and working on the front lines of climate change. May this book support your efforts by inspiring others to join the rising tide of people working to honor creation and bring climate justice to our world.