It’s my honor!!!

Spiritual Practices for a Changing Earth replaces commodity fetishism with a gift economy in which all life – broken and suffused with loss – is celebrated as good and sacred and worthy of our mutual love and care.

It evokes age-old animist sensibilities in which the reader-devotee is awakened to S/spirit’s movement in rivers and seas, mountains and deserts, birds and insects. Richly sensual and erotically textured,

Rooted in wonder and grief, it has the potential to ground the body, nurture the spirit, and empower the will to rewild natural places for the wellbeing of humankind and otherkind.

toward our surroundings, the place in which our bodies are present, coming together to shape that space with other beings.”

This ritual guidebook is a manual for joy on a beautiful, burning planet.

“Rituals orient our affections; they tell us who and with whom to be; they tell us whom and what to avoid. What this ritual intends to do, then, is to reorient our whole selves (mind, body, emotions)

It is performance art because it summons the reader to become a practitioner in bioregional ritual activity that enables them to fall in love again with and be willing to repair the natural world. As Carvalhaes writes,

Wow!!!! I haven’t heard of this! Thank you for sending it to me!!

Stephen Burns Professor of Liturgical and Practical Theology Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity Melbourne, Australia.

My publisher is the best! Not big but amazing! Barber's Press! And yes, we can only have it on Amazon... Sorry.

Passion and urgency, truth-telling and testimony, combine with great force in Cláudio’s thinking, and this remarkable book will be well-read, gather companions, and muster more justice in the life of believers. Read it for it’s challenge, gift, provocation, blessing, agenda-setting, summons…"

So, these are the field notes of a man on a journey—to the land, to his past, with his children, for the overlooked—as he wrestles with his questions, privilege, and responsibilities.

"Ritual at World’s End maps Cláudio’s conversion to an ecological approach to liturgy. It also manifests his ever-confident eschewal of the usual authorities in liturgical theology. Instead, he is looking to liberation theologians, and listening to the poor.

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