Matthew C. Halteman

A Faith Embracing All Creatures

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Many good books deserve an enthusiastic recommendation. But only a few merit the stockpiling of a stash of copies to give to anyone and everyone who crosses one's path. A Faith Embracing All Creatures will be greeted as this latter sort of book by anyone with a heart for creation care. . . . Christians of all varieties will find accessible, creative, and challenging perspectives on a crucial but oft-neglected aspect of their daily discipleship. Animal advocates, Christian or otherwise, will find an indispensable resource for engaging religious audiences. And everyone will find a prophetic call to compassion and justice for all of God's creatures issued from some of the most influential voices in animal ethics and theology as well as from some of the field's most provocative newcomers.”

Shalom Ethics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Tom Crisp's Shalom Ethics is my favorite sort of book--the sort in which the only thing more exciting than wrestling with its soul-making challenges is imagining the provocative and healing ferment it may generate--in journals, books, and classrooms (for sure!), but also and more importantly in the lives of radically loving people yearning to bring the peace that passes understanding into the meanest streets of human experience. Agree or disagree with Crisp's often demanding conclusions, but you cannot escape this book without an exceedingly more rigorous and vastly expanded understanding of the transformational power of love and the deep joy its votaries can realize in their lives and communities.”

Taking the Adventure

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Taking the Adventure is an apt title for this bracing journey into seeing animals afresh in light of their dignity as unique individuals and fellow creatures of God. From the wilds of Narnia to the fleshpots of exilic Egypt to the manors of Austen's England, Ellwood's master course of literary essays illuminates the unanticipated ways that traversing these environs with fresh eyes can 'open our hearts and hands to the divine Light that is Love which is present in every person, or even every being.'”