Episode 69: God’s Good Earth and the power of awe and wonder in creation

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5:34 p.m.

Anne Rowthorn, Ph. D. is a passionate, long-time environmentalist. She has written or compiled 12 books, of late specializing in the area of religion and ecology. Long an admirer of John Muir, she took particular pleasure in compiling the book, The Wisdom of John Muir:  100+ Selections from the Letters, Journals and Essays of the Great Naturalist,which is available in most book stores and national park gift shops. 

 

The Rt. Rev. Jeffrey Rowthorn was one of the founding faculty members of the Institute of Sacred Music, and a professor of Liturgy at Yale Divinity School, and was the school’s first Chapel Minister. In 1987 he was elected Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut and then from 1994 to 2001 served as Bishop of the Episcopal congregations in Europe.  Over the past forty years he has compiled and edited three hymnals and written hymns, among them the school hymn for Berkeley Divinity School and a hymn commissioned to mark the tercentenary of Yale University.  His most recent hymnal is Sing of the World Made New: Hymns of Justice, Peace and Christian Responsibility. 

 

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