{"product_id":"so-we-and-our-children-may-live-following-jesus-in-confronting-the-climate-crisis-hardcover","title":"So We and Our Children May Live: Following Jesus in Confronting the Climate Crisis - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSheri Hostetler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePatty Krawec\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill we choose life for our children and the future of our planet?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverywhere we look, we see signs that all is not right with our earth--extreme temperatures and weather patterns wreak havoc, pollutants sour soils and waterways, and fires and floods ravage land and communities. Climate change is just a symptom of a larger ecological crisis. If we want change, we must realize that the solutions to the problems we face can't come through the same systems that created those problems in the first place. \u003cbr\u003eEcological justice requires that we challenge our assumptions about creation and our relationship to it. It requires decolonization. We must turn to the leadership of Indigenous communities who struggle for all life as land and water protectors, and must call on people of faith to join them. \u003cbr\u003e​ \u003cbr\u003eThis book offers hope for a better future alongside concrete actions for joining with Indigenous Peoples to protect life and negotiate with decision-makers for sustainable change that follows Jesus. In these pages, readers are called to confront climate change and choose life for our children and the future of our planet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWill we choose life for our children and the future of our planet?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverywhere we look, we see signs that all is not right with our earth--extreme temperatures and weather patterns wreak havoc, pollutants sour soils and waterways, and fires and floods ravage land and communities. Climate change is just a symptom of a larger ecological crisis. If we want change, we must realize that the solutions to the problems we face can't come through the same systems that created those problems in the first place. \u003cbr\u003eEcological justice requires that we challenge our assumptions about creation and our relationship to it. It requires decolonization. We must turn to the leadership of Indigenous communities who struggle for all life as land and water protectors, and must call on people of faith to join them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers hope for a better future alongside concrete actions for joining with Indigenous Peoples to protect life and negotiate with decision-makers for sustainable change that follows Jesus. In these pages, readers are called to confront climate change and choose life for our children and the future of our planet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Augustine\u003c\/b\u003e, who is a Pueblo (Tewa) descendant, is cofounder and executive director of the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition. She is also the cofounder of Suriname Indigenous Health Fund (SIHF), where she has worked in relationship with vulnerable Indigenous Peoples since 2005. She has represented the interests of Indigenous community partners to their own governments, the Inter-American development bank, the United Nations, the Organization of American States Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the World Health Organization, among others. She cohosts the \u003ci\u003eDismantling the Doctrine of Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e podcast with Sheri Hostetler and is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Land Is Not Empty\u003c\/i\u003e. She serves in a leadership role on multiple boards and commissions to enable vulnerable peoples in Washington State to speak for themselves in advocating for structural change. She and her husband Dan Peplow and their son live in the Yakima Valley of Washington. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheri Hostetler\u003c\/b\u003e cofounded the Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition in 2014 and continues to serve on the steering committee. She is the cohost of the \u003ci\u003eDismantling the Doctrine of Discovery \u003c\/i\u003epodcast with Sarah Augustine. She was also one of the founders of what is now called Inclusive Mennonite Pastors, a coalition of pastoral leaders seeking LGBTQ+ justice in the church. She has been the lead pastor of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco since 2000. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAnabaptist World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMennonite Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLeader \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, and more, and her poems appear in \u003ci\u003eA Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a graduate of Bluffton College and the Episcopal Divinity School. She is trained as a spiritual director and a permaculturist, and lives with her husband Jerome Baggett and their son Patrick on an island in the San Francisco Bay. 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