Book Description
This anthology, combining articles by Buddhist, Christian, Islamic, Jewish, and Native American scholar, looks at the environmental crisis through a spiritual lens.


About the Author
Barry McDonald's authoritative voice on the world's religions has been formed by a combination of academic study and first hand contact with various sacred traditions throughout the world. He received his undergraduate education at Goddard College and his graduate degree at Indiana University. The six months that he spent in the Middle East in 1973 began a series of life long contacts with authentic representatives of most of the world's great religions, including travels to the Middle East, Asia, North Africa, Europe and the American West. Thomas Yellowtail, the venerable Crow medicine man and Sun Dance chief, adopted McDonald into the Crow tribe. He is a published poet and has edited Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man, in the Perennial Philosophy series and is in the process of editing, with Patrick Laude, Music of the Sky: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2003 in the Treasures of the World's Religions Series. His writing style combines the lyrical beauty of a poet, the penetrating metaphysical understanding of a scholar, and the personal insights of a spiritual seeker.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

How do people sense God's presence in created things? Seeing God Everywhere is an anthology of essays on nature and the sacred which address that question. Written by an impressive list of spiritual leaders and thinkers, these essays explore the questions from many different perspectives. As a special bonus, at the end of each essay is a short poem on nature and the sacred, taken from various traditions.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Michael O. Fitzgerald

This collection of essays by some of the most important scholars and religious authorities of our time points to the necessity of understanding the current environmental crisis through the lens of spiritual vision. Its basic thesis is that the earth itself is sacred, and that to overcome the current agendas of exploitation and waste, we must see the creation and the work of the Creator....Essential reading for anyone who has ever felt the presence of God in nature — author, Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief

Brian Keeble

This is perhaps the first book one might turn to at a time when the barbarism of the 'global economy' is spearheading the destruction of the planet. This collection of essays demonstrates the truly global unanimity of the view that the natural world is Sacred—is indeed the Second Revelation. — co-founder, Temenos Academy

Mark Perry