Fugitive Faith

National Catholic Reporter, Sept 18, 1998 by William C. Graham

Fugitive Faith, interviews by Benjamin Webb (Orbis, Ecology and Justice Series, 216 pages, $16 paperback), is a collection of conversations on spiritual, environmental, and community renewal. In the foreword, Bill McKibben reflects on an annual blessing of animals and offers the opinion that "We don't do it because animals need our blessing; they wear so much more naturally than us the blessing of their creator." Perhaps the notion of wearing more naturally the blessing of the creator is the inspiration behind both the writing and the reading of this book.

The editor, an Episcopal priest in Cedar Falls, Iowa, divides his interviews into four parts: examining the spoiled condition of our physical and moral environments, practical links between religious and environmental sensibilities, restoring and re-storying, and the resurgence of spiritual, environmental and community renewal.