The Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development (ICSD) publishes and distributes books and reports on the connection between religion and ecology. ICSD celebrates its 10th anniversary by publishing Eco Bible: Volume 1: An Ecological Commentary on Genesis and Exodus in October 2020. Founded in 2010, ICSD also organizes interfaith environmental conferences, where its publications are also distributed.
ICSD will publish Eco Bible Volume 2- Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy in 2021. A groundbreaking new Eco Bible explores the Hebrew Bible’s ecological as well as spiritual wisdom, to address humanity’s greatest challenges in protecting life on Earth. Eco Bible connects the Five Books of Moses/Pentateuch, and Jewish rabbis’ biblical teachings past and present, with contemporary scientific understanding of human health, biodiversity, and environmental protection of air, land and water. The Julia Burke Foundation will fund 800 free books for pastors, priests, rabbis, and Hebrew Bible professors at theological schools.
Reports on Religion and Ecology in Theological Education
Report on Faith and Ecology Courses in North American Seminaries
This report highlights ecologically themed courses offered at seminaries in North America, Rome, and the Holy Land. This groundbreaking report includes course descriptions of over 170 courses on ecology offered in over 60 theological schools and seminaries.
Report on Catholic Ecology Courses For Priestly Formation
Released in October 2016, the Report on Catholic Ecology Courses For Priestly Formation highlights courses on ecological themes offered at a number of Catholic seminaries in North America, Rome, and the Holy Land.
It follows the release of Pope Francis’s Encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home, which has significantly increased global awareness of the strong link between faith and ecology and called for seminaries and houses of worship to provide creation-care education.
Report on Faith and Ecology Teaching in Holy Land Seminaries
Released in March 2016, the Report on Faith and Ecology Teaching in the Holy Land Seminaries highlights the faith and ecology courses offered by various seminaries in the Holy Land, with a focus on Christian and Jewish seminaries.