My book Grounded in Love: Ecology, Faith, and Action  has been available since May 23!  I spent most of Lent putting on the finishing touches, and it is now at the printer. This feels like the most important book I have ever written, and those who were asked to write blurbs seemed to agree that it will be useful at this time, when humanity is confronted with so many environmental challenges.   You can find out more by accessing the publisher's website: www.kenarnoldbooks.com.

This spring, I have spent many weekends speaking and preaching about the concepts in the book, and  leading Saturday Quiet Days that include the material.  The process is more than intellectual!  Providing prayer exercises,  many of them based on the integration of body and spirit, helps participants to move through the process from love to concern to ethics to action to hope.

I've recently returned from New York City, where I led a "Spa for the Soul" day at Trinity Church, Wall Street, the parish where I used to work in the 1980s, and went to a reception at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine for people interested in supporting a performance of "Plague and the Moonflower."   The "eco-oratorio," a collaboration between artist and writer Ralph Stedman and composer Richard Harvey, is planned for the weekend of April 24 and 25, 2009.  It will be the centerpiece for an environmental symposium and, probably, a course sponsored by the General Theological Seminary immeditately following the weekend, about environment, spirit, and action, in which I will take part.  Stay tuned!