August book

The Diocese of Arizona’s Creation Care Ministry convened a fiction-based book group for July and August. The book for August is Of Green Stuff Woven by The Rev’d Cathleen Bascom—recently elected the first woman Episcopal bishop of Kansas. This is her debut novel.

Theology and pragmatism butt heads in the book Of Green Stuff Woven. The book depicts a group of native gardeners who are restoring tall grass prairie on land connected to their historic Episcopal cathedral. They are approached by hotel developers and are caught between their passion for the prairie and their need for money to repair their crumbling cathedral. It is a novel about relationships—between humans, their environment, and the divine.

There will be two one-hour sessions on Zoom. The first meeting will be at 6:30pm on Wednesday, August 24 and the second gathering will be at 6:30pm on Wednesday, August 31. At each session participants will discuss their spiritual reflections, as well as the climate change issues the novel raises.