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Following Jesus in a Warming World
A Christian Call to Climate Action

By Kyle Meyaard-Schaap

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A hopeful, practical and deeply biblical guide for Christians who want to respond faithfully to the climate crisis with courage, compassion and action.

This book will help you:

• Understand climate action as part of Christian discipleship and love of neighbour.
• Move from anxiety, grief or paralysis into practical and meaningful action.
• Explore creation care through Scripture, theology and lived experience.
• Recognise the human impact of climate change, especially on vulnerable communities.
• Find hope without denying the urgency of the crisis.
• Begin conversations about climate justice within churches, small groups and faith communities.
• Connect personal choices, public advocacy and spiritual formation in a faithful response to a warming world.

Features

• A field guide for Christian climate action.
• Combines personal stories, theological reflection, scriptural exploration and practical advice.
• Written especially for Christians who feel concerned but unsure where to begin.
• Engages themes of creation care, justice, advocacy, discipleship and hope.
• Includes endorsements from respected voices including Bill McKibben and Debra Rienstra.

Soft cover 208pp
21.6 cm H x 14.0 cm W x 1.8 cm D
ISBN 9781514004456
IVP (2023)

Description

Climate change can feel overwhelming: too large to face, too politicised to discuss, and too frightening to hold for long.

Many Christians feel the weight of the crisis but are unsure how to respond, especially when churches remain silent, dismissive or divided. This book speaks directly into that tension with a clear and compassionate invitation: climate action is not a distraction from Christian faith, but a faithful expression of it.

Drawing on his experience as a Christian climate activist, the author offers a guide for readers who have looked at the suffering caused by a warming world and wondered what they are missing. Through stories from the field, biblical reflection and practical wisdom, he shows how care for creation is inseparable from love of God and neighbour. The book is especially attentive to those who feel isolated in their concern, including younger Christians who recognise the urgency of climate change but do not know where to begin.

Rather than grounding action in guilt, fear or despair, this guide calls readers into the joy of caring for God’s world. It acknowledges the scale of the crisis while resisting hopelessness. It also challenges a purely private or individual approach, helping Christians see how personal responsibility, community engagement and public advocacy can work together as part of a faithful response.

The result is both a wake-up call and a companion for the journey. It invites churches, small groups, students, activists and thoughtful readers to connect discipleship with climate justice, prayer with action, and hope with courage. For anyone seeking a deeply scriptural, morally serious and encouraging Christian response to the ecological crisis, this book offers a way forward.

About the Author

Kyle Meyaard-Schaap is an author, activist and ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. He has spent more than a decade educating, equipping and mobilising Christians to respond to the climate crisis as an act of discipleship and neighbour-love. He has served in leadership with Christian climate organisations, including as vice president of the Evangelical Environmental Network and as a spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. He holds a BA in religious studies from Calvin University and a Master of Divinity from Western Theological Seminary.

Contents

Introduction to Christian climate action
Stories from the field
Theological reflections on creation care
Scriptural foundations for ecological responsibility
Climate change, justice and vulnerable communities
Moving from paralysis to action
Personal practices and lifestyle responses
Church-based engagement and community action
Public advocacy as Christian witness
Hope, discipleship and faithful endurance in a warming world