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Laura Stivers

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Earth Ethics, James Martin-Schramm, Daniel Spencer, Laura A. Stivers Nov 2015

Earth Ethics, James Martin-Schramm, Daniel Spencer, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Christian Environmental Ethics: A Case Method Approach, this volume introduces new topics in environmental ethics, including hydraulic fracturing, greenhouse gases, food consumption, and resource stewardship, and revisits traditional topics in environmental ethics, while expanding beyond a specifically Christian hermeneutic. ~ Amazon.com

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Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers Oct 2015

Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Larry Rasmussen’s new book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, like his last environmental ethics masterpiece Earth Community Earth Ethics (won the 1997 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion), is eloquently written and incorporates a multitude of interdisciplinary sources to argue for Creation justice.

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Stories From The Street: A Theology Of Homelessness By David Nixon, Laura Stivers Jul 2015

Stories From The Street: A Theology Of Homelessness By David Nixon, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

David Nixon in his book Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness places stories of people who are homeless in dialogue with Christian scriptures, Church tradition, and particular theologies to construct a “theology of homelessness” (7). Drawing on liberation theology, Nixon argues that stories told by poor people can offer a deeper sense of the meaning of God and relationship, can reinvigorate the Christian story, and can in fact, change the world. Nixon shares a number of life histories of homeless people and teases out biographical and emotional themes from their stories in relation to spirituality. He also recounts …

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Stories From The Street: A Theology Of Homelessness By David Nixon, Laura Stivers Jul 2015

Stories From The Street: A Theology Of Homelessness By David Nixon, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

David Nixon in his book Stories from the Street: A Theology of Homelessness places stories of people who are homeless in dialogue with Christian scriptures, Church tradition, and particular theologies to construct a “theology of homelessness” (7). Drawing on liberation theology, Nixon argues that stories told by poor people can offer a deeper sense of the meaning of God and relationship, can reinvigorate the Christian story, and can in fact, change the world. Nixon shares a number of life histories of homeless people and teases out biographical and emotional themes from their stories in relation to spirituality. He also recounts …

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Hospitality As Companionship And Justice, Laura Stivers Oct 2014

Hospitality As Companionship And Justice, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

My work has not been in direct ministry to people who are homeless but instead I have been involved in writing, teaching, and organizing to do the work of justice. . .to end homelessness as this homeless poet asks us to do. Organizing for justice through structural change (e.g. affordable housing, good work for all, universal healthcare, no wars, etc.) is of paramount importance. It is our fight. The problem of homelessness is less about the individuals who find themselves without a place to sleep and more about our collective identity as a people and a society. Organizing for justice, …

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Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers Oct 2014

Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics In A New Key By Larry Rasmussen, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Larry Rasmussen’s new book, Earth-Honoring Faith: Religious Ethics in a New Key, like his last environmental ethics masterpiece Earth Community Earth Ethics (won the 1997 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion), is eloquently written and incorporates a multitude of interdisciplinary sources to argue for Creation justice.

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Antiracist Education: From Theory To Practice By Julie Kailin., Laura Stivers Oct 2014

Antiracist Education: From Theory To Practice By Julie Kailin., Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Although I help students to see the complexity of racism and how their actions or inactions can further individual and institutional racism, this book pushed me to think more deeply about the racism in my own university and classes and how I can more intentionally pursue antiracist education. The book is written for primary and secondary education, but it is useful for college and seminary professors in religion as well.

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To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers Oct 2014

To Be Or Not To Be A Vegetarian, Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

Teaching Goals: To explore personal integrity in environmental ethics. To understand the connection between environmental destruction and meat eating. To explore attitudes towards nature and nonhuman animals and the interconnections with attitudes towards various human animals. To explore the differences between individual and holistic ecocentrism. To explore how theology informs the question of whether to be vegetarian.

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Smart Growth: Affordable Housing, Public Transportation, And Open Space, Laura A. Stivers Sep 2014

Smart Growth: Affordable Housing, Public Transportation, And Open Space, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Responding To ‘Not In My Backyard’ Advocates: A Christian Feminist Justice Approach, Laura A. Stivers Sep 2014

Responding To ‘Not In My Backyard’ Advocates: A Christian Feminist Justice Approach, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the names of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich come up frequently. In the second section, “Economics and Justice,” the focus turns to the different levels at which economics has significance for social justice. These chapters discuss fair housing at the local level, the dialogue between Christians and Native Americans over property rights at the regional and national

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Christian Feminist Conception Of Justice, Laura A. Stivers Jun 2014

Christian Feminist Conception Of Justice, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

The Judeo-Christian tradition testifies to a God that cries out, demanding that justice "roll down like waters, righteousness like an ever-flowing stream" (Amos 5:24). Christians agree that being advocates for justice is critical to the Christian witness. And yet one need not look widely to see that Christians disagree about what social justice entails. What does justice have to do with healthcare reform, illegal immigration, and same-sex marriage? Should Christians support tax policies that effectively require wealthy individuals to fund programs that benefit the poor? Does justice require that we acknowledge and address the inequalities borne out of histories of …

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Solidarity Ethics: Transformation In A Globalized World. By Rebecca Todd Peters [Review], Laura Stivers Apr 2014

Solidarity Ethics: Transformation In A Globalized World. By Rebecca Todd Peters [Review], Laura Stivers

Laura Stivers

{2] Rebecca Todd Peters writes from her personal experience of metanoia, or seeing with new eyes, when at the age of twenty-four she attended a women’s leadership development conference in Jamaica that was sponsored by faith-based organizations. At the conference she developed relationships with women whose lives were very different from her own and listened to their stories of struggle and challenge. These personal relationships gave her a new vantage point for understanding economic globalization. Her even deeper transformation occurred when after sharing her story of being called to help people by doing mission work in the two-thirds world, a …

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Capitalism, Inequality, And A Politics Of Fear Waged Against Affordable Housing, Laura A. Stivers Oct 2013

Capitalism, Inequality, And A Politics Of Fear Waged Against Affordable Housing, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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From Charity To Community: Promoting Hospitality As Justice (Invited Lecture), Laura A. Stivers Sep 2013

From Charity To Community: Promoting Hospitality As Justice (Invited Lecture), Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Language Of God/Dess And Female Empowerment, Laura A. Stivers Aug 2013

Language Of God/Dess And Female Empowerment, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Responding To “Not In My Backyard” Advocates: A Christian Feminist Justice Approach, Laura A. Stivers Jan 2013

Responding To “Not In My Backyard” Advocates: A Christian Feminist Justice Approach, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Economic Ethics, Laura A. Stivers Dec 2012

Economic Ethics, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the globe and within the United States across different racial, ethnic, and gender groups. Authored by several contributors, this book elucidates how the powerless and disenfranchised within marginalized communities employ their religious beliefs to articulate a liberationist/liberative religious ethical perspective. Students will thus comprehend the diversity existing within the liberative ethical discourse and know which scholars and texts to read and will encounter practical ways to further social justice.

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“Housing: The Civil Rights Issue For Our Time, Laura A. Stivers Jun 2012

“Housing: The Civil Rights Issue For Our Time, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Interviewed By Timothy Harris, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers Apr 2012

Interviewed By Timothy Harris, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

Churches and helping homeless people go together like soup and sandwiches. From the Skid Row rescue missions of the 19th century right up to the present, modern Christians have responded to Matthew 25:35 by feeding the hungry and sheltering the stranger. Yet how many, asks Dominican University of California philosophy and ethics professor Laura Stivers, take the next step, advised in Isaiah 1:17, and work to "seek justice and encourage the oppressed?"

The answer, says Stivers, is not nearly enough. "Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches (Fortress Press, $18) offers a manual of sorts to faith activists interested in building a …

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Making A Home For All, Laura A. Stivers Feb 2012

Making A Home For All, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Disrupting Homelessness (Guest Lecture), Laura A. Stivers Feb 2012

Disrupting Homelessness (Guest Lecture), Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers Feb 2012

Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Breakfast With An Author For Book Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches, Laura A. Stivers Dec 2011

Breakfast With An Author For Book Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Interviewed By Annan Paterson, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers Dec 2011

Interviewed By Annan Paterson, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Interviewed By John Shorb, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers Dec 2011

Interviewed By John Shorb, On Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

aura Stivers, professor of ethics at Dominican University of California, recently investigated the issue of homelessness from a Christian perspective. The result was her new book Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches. She shared her thoughts on how churches and individual Christians might approach homelessness on a systematic level based on biblical understandings of hospitality and justice.

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Profiles Of Dominican: Dr. Laura Stivers, Laura A. Stivers Dec 2011

Profiles Of Dominican: Dr. Laura Stivers, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

Dr. Laura Stivers, Dean, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and former Associate Professor of Ethics believes homelessness is a preventable problem in the United States. The solution begins with education about the root causes of homelessness, but the political will to change social policies that create inequality and poverty also will be necessary.

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Interviewed By Joan Claire, “People Of Faith Must Hear The Cry Of The Poor”, Laura A. Stivers Oct 2011

Interviewed By Joan Claire, “People Of Faith Must Hear The Cry Of The Poor”, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers


In her book, Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches, Laura Stivers explores ways that people of faith can build a prophetic movement to overcome homelessness and economic injustice. She calls for churches to go beyond charity and develop a new level of solidarity with homeless people.

The ultimate goal is not only to create homes and economic justice for all, but also to nurture a new sense of compassion and sharing as an alternative to a society based on self-centered materialism.

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Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers Sep 2011

Disrupting Homelessness, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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“Identifying Our New Context For Peacemaking: Domestic Economic Underdevelopment And Political Polarization, Laura A. Stivers Sep 2011

“Identifying Our New Context For Peacemaking: Domestic Economic Underdevelopment And Political Polarization, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

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Water As Earth's Bloodstream: Latina Ecofeminist Spirituality And Water Justice, Laura A. Stivers Jul 2011

Water As Earth's Bloodstream: Latina Ecofeminist Spirituality And Water Justice, Laura A. Stivers

Laura Stivers

Spirit and Nature is a collection of essays exploring how the resources of Christian spirituality can inform the practice of a more ecologically sustainable faith. Our current ecological situation calls for people of religious faith to reexamine the way they envision the practice of spirituality. As environmental ethicists have called us to reconsider the human-Earth relationship so that the planet is not seen as simply an endless supply of resources to fill human wants and needs, so these essays call us to reconsider spiritual practice as it relates to Earth's ecology. Rather than viewing spirituality as an escape from the …

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