Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry: Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care
Ebook
Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry is a comprehensive guide. The book provides a rationale, strategies, and resources for fulfilling environmental stewardship through the land and buildings of Christian and Jewish congregations. New construction, renovation, and historic preservation projects are addressed. Site development, material choices, energy generation and consumption, water use, interior air quality, green cleaning programs, and beauty are discussed. Ten congregations from across the United States and Canada are featured as examples of excellence in creation care in and through their built environments.
The Prophet Isaiah’s counsel, ‘God did not create the world in order that it might become a waste; God formed it for human habitation’ (45:18) summarizes Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry. This blueprint for melding the natural cadence of God’s earth with the rhythms of worship and holiday celebration finds expression in the design of houses of worship that take the LEED in environmentally responsible stewardship of the earth’s resources.
Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry provides a wonderfully thoughtful and practical guide to the work of greening our congregations and religious facilities filled with inspiring real-world examples. I hope and pray this book becomes a well-worn manual for the growing movement of religious communities caring for the whole of God's creation.
Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry helps congregations of different faiths serve God by protecting God's Creation. From the sublime to the practical and from the pulpit to the pews, it is a great planning tool for those who want to be better stewards of God’s Creation.
Product Details
- Title : Greening Spaces for Worship and Ministry: Congregations, Their Buildings, and Creation Care
- Author: Torgerson, Mark A.
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781566995399
Mark A. Torgerson teaches in the areas of worship, theology, and architecture at Judson University, Elgin, Illinois. He has served as a pastor in churches in Wisconsin and Connecticut. His work with the material environment and worship spans more than twenty years. His most recent book is An Architecture of Immanence: Architecture for Worship and Ministry.