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February Publishers Newsletter
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ย Dear Friends, As we approach the season of Lent, several new Orbis titles invite us on a journey of conversionโor at least a fresh examination of traditional beliefs and engrained narratives. In Come, Have Breakfast: Meditations on God and the Earth, Elizabeth Johnson, one of the foremost Catholic theologians today, continues her project of examining Christian faith in relation to the natural world, the earth, and the threats posed by climate change. In each of these luminous meditations, most inspired by the Psalms and other scriptural texts, she offers a snapshot of Godโs care for Creationโa planet in perilโwith...
January 2024
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JANUARY 2024 ย Dear Friends, ย We enter a new year fraught with peril and suffering on many fronts: ongoing wars, the effects of climate change; the plight of migrants and refugees; racial injustice and threats to democracy. Many of our new titles this past year have spoken to such issues. (See Henri Nouwen, Ukraine Diary; Mitri Raheb, Decolonizing Palestine; Elizabeth Gandolfo, Ecomartyrdom in the Americas; Why We Canโt Wait: Racism and the Church; Leo Guardado, Church as Sanctuary; and Pope Francisโs warning on the climate crisis, Laudate Deum. ย All of these titles reflect the longstanding, prophetic mission of...
December Publishers Newsletter
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ย Dear Friends, ย You may have noticed our first online Christmas Sale, featuring savings up to 75%. Along with many classics, this sale features our bestselling titles of the year, including James Finleyโs The Healing Path,, James Coneโs The Cross and the Lynching Tree, Henri Nouwenโs Ukraine Diary, and biographies of Father Ed Dowling, the spiritual sponsor of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill W., and โpeace bishopโ Thomas Gumbleton, Already have these books, you say? Now is a perfect time to think of gifts that can change the lives of your friends and family! ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย When Pope Francis addressed the U.S. Congress...
Laudate Deum - Available Now!
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In his historic encyclical of 2015,ย Laudato Siโ: On Care for Our Common Home,ย Pope Francis firmly established ecological concerns as central to the agenda of Catholic Social Teaching. Along with a spiritual framework on care for creation, he outlined issues of climate change, biodiversity, the peril facing our oceans, access to fresh water, and sustainable food, and offered a comprehensive guide to integral ecology.ย ย Eight years later comes a shorter but even more urgent call in the form of this new apostolic exhortation,ย Laudate Deum,ย which focuses specifically on the โclimate crisisโ of our time. Disappointed that not enough has been done in...