{"id":4087,"date":"2019-06-05T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:46:11","slug":"ips-alumnus-publishes-new-book-woven-together-faith-and-justice-for-the-earth-and-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"IPS Alumnus Publishes New Book &#8220;Woven Together : Faith and Justice for the Earth and the Poor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"395\" height=\"598\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2019\/06\/woven.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/woven.jpg 395w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/woven-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> In his new book, <em>Woven Together: Faith and Justice for the Earth and the Poor<\/em>, James Mastaler makes the case that now, more than ever, it is critical that religious stories encompass a call to moral responsibility for the earth and to the global poor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James is an alumnus of the Master of Arts in Social Justice program at the Institute of Pastoral Studies and he has a PhD in theology from Loyola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/files\/2019\/06\/jms.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4088\" width=\"408\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jms.jpg 408w, https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jms-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption> James S. Mastaler, PhD  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The book, with a foreword by distinguished environmental philosopher Holmes Rolston III, has been endorsed by Bill McKibben as a \u201cgood-hearted and useful effort to bridge some of the gaps between communities of faith and the environmental justice movement.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*For an extended\ndescription of the book and additional reviews, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmastaler.com\/book\">http:\/\/www.jamesmastaler.com\/book\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Readers are encouraged\nto connect with the author in the Facebook Group &#8220;WE ARE\n#WovenTogether&#8221; or on Twitter @JamesMastaler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Available wherever\nbooks are sold\u200b\u200b in paperback and e-reader versions, including Kindle on\nAmazon, or from your local independent bookstore (such as Chicago&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unabridgedbookstore.com\/book\/9781532661679\">Unabridged Books\u200b<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his new book, Woven Together: Faith and Justice for the Earth and the Poor, James Mastaler makes the case that now, more than ever, it is critical that religious stories encompass a call to moral responsibility for the earth and to the global poor. James is an alumnus of the Master of Arts in <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/?p=4087\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/ips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}