Humanity now faces the greatest challenge in its history – to save our planet.
Author and lifelong environmentalist Bob Harrington makes an eloquent appeal for a theology of the earth, combining philosophical and spiritual perception with practical economic facts to educate, inspire and challenge listeners to change their lives in order to change the world.
Harrington has spent many years privately funding and managing small environmental restoration projects as well as writing and publishing several books on environmental matters.
He examines the place of humankind in the kinship of all life, and in a masterful fashion has identified specific problems that we have created, the consequences of our actions and the necessary courses of action we must take to save our planet and ourselves.
With deep insight and compassion Harrington shows us another way.
It is a way that has received the seal of approval from another well-known and highly respected environmentalist - David Suzuki.
“Bob Harrington has spent a lifetime pondering these matters, humanity’s awesome duality, the capacity for love and compassion and our terrible destructiveness,” writes Suzuki in the forward to Harrington’s book, The Soul Solution – The Need for a Theology of the Earth. “By living thoughtfully, lightly and with respect, Bob and Linda Harrington show us the richness of lives lived filled with love and spirit. The Soul Solution is their critique of our dilemma and their uplifting vision of what can be. The wisdom suffused throughout the book was never more urgently needed, and offers us a different path to take.”
Harrington will make a presentation at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 26 at First United Church in an event sponsored by World Service Organization.
Harrington will discuss the idea that the Earth may be imbued with soul, awareness, intelligence and benevolence, and examine our place in the midst of this miracle.
Everyone is welcome to attend what organizer Dorothy Argent describes as an insightful and inspiring presentation. Admission is by a suggested $10 donation.