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Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger begin their book Break Through by referring to the historic speech by Martin Luther King “I have a dream.”1 They highlight its strength, its focus on what is positive and desirable, its ability to point us toward the future with a contagious hope and with a strong longing for freedom and justice. I profoundly love that speech. I read it often. I dream it too. It always moves me to tears. I used it in teaching and in homilies. I turn to it to nourish my hope in a better future. Such a future can come. We can play a significant role in making it happen, sooner than later, here and now.
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See: Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007); Martin Luther Jr. King, “I have a dream” (1963), http://www.mlkonline.net/dream.html
See: Avery Dulles, Models of the Church, expanded ed. (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
See: Peter Steinfels, “Further adrift: the American church’s crisis of attrition,” Commonweal 137, no. 18 (2010): 16–21; The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” (2010), http://religions.pewforum.org/
See: Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (Washington, DC: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2005), § 487;
Jame Schaefer, “Appreciating the beauty of Earth,” Theological Studies 62, no. 1 (2001): 23–52;
Jame Schaefer, Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009).
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Vicini, A. (2013). Roman Catholic Commitment to Promoting Sustainability. In: Gagliardi, P., Reijnen, A.M., Valentini, P. (eds) Protecting Nature, Saving Creation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137342669_21
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