This Sweet Earth

This Sweet Earthicon

by Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Publication
Jul 23, 2024
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Price
18.99
Dimensions
5.5 x 8.5 in
ISBN
9781506495125
Pages
173
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Family & ParentingGeneral Nonfiction

Rights Sold

🌍 World Wide Rights Available

Description

In This Sweet Earth: Walking with Our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse, parent, activist, and writer Lydia Wylie-Kellermann wrestles with these questions and dares to argue that while the future remains unknown, there is still awe and wonder, love and struggle, gratitude and overwhelming joy to be found. As we raise our children toward this uncertain future, Wylie-Kellermann helps us see that those same children shift our posture, slow us down, and invite us to fall in love with the ground on which we stand. 

At this turning point in humanity, we can choose to shift our lives away from death-dealing profit systems toward life-giving, generous systems. Here is the moment when we must choose to fight like hell for climate justice. And we can do it by nurturing a deeper relationship with this sweet earth in all its beauty, wonder, and wisdom, walking alongside our children.

Awards & Endorsements

Library Journal
“The book calls for communities to protect nature and the planet from despair and involve youths in resistance work... A helpful and page-turning guide to protecting the planet amid today’s climate change crisis.”

Author(s)

Lydia  Wylie-Kellermann

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann

Lydia Wylie-Kellermann is a writer, editor, activist, and mother. She is the author of This Sweet Earth: Walking with our Children in the Age of Climate Collapse. She is director of Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center and the editor of The Sandbox Revolution: Raising Kids for a Just World. Lydia’s writing has appeared in Sojourners, Red Letter Christians, Geez Magazine, and various Catholic Worker papers, and she is a contributor to multiple books. She lives with her partner and two boys in Bangor, Pennsylvania.

Lydia was the managing editor for five years of Geez magazine, a quarterly, non-profit, ad-free, print magazine at the intersection of art, activism, and faith. She is a contributor to multiple books, including Rally: Litanies for the Lovers of God and Neighbor (Brittney Winn Lee, ed., Upper Room Books, 2020); Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice (Ched Myers, ed., Cascade Books, 2016); and Bury the Dead: Stories of Death and Dying, Resistance and Discipleship (Laurel Dykstra, ed.; Cascade Books, 2013).

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