Description
Owen Owens was a Christian leader committed to environmental and racial justice. In his last work, he offers reflective essays on hope for restoring the Earth and seeing God’s promises while enduring life’s hardships. Throughout the book, he invites readers to feel the loving light of our Creator, calling us into wholeness and healing. He writes passionately about the restoration of lands impacted by mountaintop removal mining and the healing of waterways, even as he faced his own end-of-life issues. Restoring the Earth will inspire you to pursue environmental wholeness and personal well-being that will sustain us and the planet.
Reviews
“Owens takes us on a truly kaleidoscopic journey from coal country in West Virginia, where activists living out their faith are restoring a landscape ravaged by strip mining, to memories of childhood in rural Cambria, Wisconsin. What made his work particularly effective is how he related creation care from the beginning, both to personal faith and evangelism and to the social justice tradition represented among Baptists by Walter Rauschenbusch and Martin Luther King Jr. To traditional Christians who want to share their faith, Owens cautions against a gospel that is too small. To progressive Christians yearning for justice, Owens insists that ultimate justice is rooted in God in Christ’s renewing love.” — Dr. David L. Wheeler, Adjunct Professor of Theology, Palmer Theological Seminary, Formerly, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Central Baptist Theological Seminary