Cultivating Ecological Virtues: An Interview with Steven Bouma-Prediger
We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief
We must increase our capacity for and interest in virtues and their formation, especially in this time of climate crisis, not succumb to a belief
Listen now Steve Bouma-Prediger is professor of religion at Hope College, ecotheologian, and author of For the Beauty of the Earth–among many other books. Here
But perhaps individual virtue-modeling (what we used the call “the character question” in American politics) is not the only question. What if we also ask
Boy, do I sound bah-humbug already. You know, maybe what I need—maybe what we all could use—is a nice fresh start. Something completely different to