Healing God’s Earth

"Healing God's Earth makes an important contribution to our task of caring for creation. S. Roy Kaufman writes out of a specific Christian tradition (Mennonite), vocation (pastor), and social context (farming community) and in doing so articulates an applied biblical theology that speaks to all Christians. Though Kaufman's critique of 'civilization' is sharp, he gives far more with his life-affirming vision of shalom based on a careful interrogation of both Testaments."

--Ted Grimsrud, author of Instead of Atonement



"A beautiful capstone on the career of a faithful rural pastor, Healing God's Earth retells the biblical narrative championing the rural struggle for faithful witness to God's hope for the world against the backdrop of urban dominion. As a corrective to fixations on urban ministry, Kaufman ignites a necessary conversation that helps rural and urban dwellers alike to grasp the importance of faithfully subversive face-to-face communities as God's chosen agents of mission in the world."

--David Boshart, Executive Conference Minster, Central Plains Mennonite Conference



"Out of the midst of our global, technocratic, and urbanizing civilization, S. Roy Kaufman issues a clarion call to local, incarnational, alternative community. Healing God's Earth is an insightful and incisive work of prophetic and pastoral biblical theology rooted in the Anabaptist Mennonite narrative. It is also an essential text for people of Christian faith and for all people everywhere as creation waits with eager longing to be set free from its bondage to degradation."

--Matthew Yoder, Pastor, Menno Mennonite Church