A RESPECTED theologian launched her new book with a visit to Reading earlier this month.
Karen Armstrong gave a talk at Reading Minster in Chain Street about Sacred Nature, which explores the climate emergency.
In it, she argues that if the global population wants to avert environmental catastrophe, we need to learn to think and feel differently about the natural world, as well as taking action. This will, she adds, rekindle a spiritual bond with nature.
She says the book is for anyone interested in humanity’s relationship with nature, worried about the destruction of our environment, and searching for new ways of thinking to shape the action needed to save our planet.
The event included an interview and a question and answer session.
Afterwards, she signed copies of Scared Nature.
The event was sponsored by Reading Minster church with the support of the Univeristy of Reading Chaplaincy department’s Café Theologique and the World Congress of Faiths.
It was judged to be a success.
A spokesperson for Reading Minster said: “Thank you to everyone who attended Karen Armstrong’s Sacred Nature book launch.
“Hearing Karen reverence for nature with great passion and respect was an inspiration to keep pursuing the need to preserve and nurture our natural spaces.”
