We are called to re-examine and deepen the Acts of earlier General Chapters in a new light. In the face of continuing acts of violence against the earth and among people, we seek to intensify our efforts: to care for our environment, to eradicate trafficking in women and children, and to build faith communities while maintaining a prophetic voice in the Church. As women of contemplation in action, we encourage and mentor those who wish to share our ministry and charism.

The 32nd General Chapter urges us to respond to certain needs of our world and our Congregation.

Recommended Resources Related to the Chapter Acts - All are available in our Library. Click the Lending Library button on this page. To find additional resources in our Lending Library please Search the following categories: Ecology, EcologySpirituality, Creation Spirituality, Nature, Environmental Responsibility, and Animal Rights. These magazines are also available for loan through SNJM Sabbath Space. Sojourners, YES: The Magazine for Positive Furtues, AMOS, KOSMOS.

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Interdependence: A Response to the Cries of the World

1. A Call for Connection: Solutions for Creating a Whole New Society, Gail Holland

2. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, David Korten

3. Cultural Creatives: How 50 million People are Changing the World, by Paul Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson.

4. The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World that Works for All, by Tom Attlee

5. The Quiet Revolution, VHS, Classix Communications

6. Seeing Stars: Leadership in a New Time, by Nancy Schreck, OSB - VHS

7. Eco-psychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Self, Foundation for Global Community, VHS

8. Turning to One another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope for the Future, by Margaret Wheatley

9. Finding the Treasure, by Sandra Schneiders

10. The Global Brain: The Next Evolutionary Leap, by Peter Russell, VHS

11. Unity of Churches: An Actual Possibility, by Karl Rahner and Heinrich Fries

12. Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming American Life, by Barack Obama

13. Circles of Hope: Breathing Life and Spirit into a Wounded World, by Bill Cane

14. Refocusing the Vision: Religious Life into the Future, by Barbara Fiand

15. A Voyage of Discovery: From Stardust to Us, Foundation for Global Community, DVD

16. Birth of the Planetary Human: An Evolutionary Spirituality, Audio-tapes

17. Building Communities from the Inside Out, Washington State University, VHS

18. The Earth Charter and Earth Charter Study Guide, (Pamphlet / Paper)

19. Our Unfolding Story, Foundation for Global Community, VHS

Response to the Crisis of our Environment

1. A Sense of Place, VHS by The Foundation for Global Community

Global Warming and Climate Change

1. God's Creation and Global Warming, VHS, National Council of Churches

2. Too Hot Not to Handle, DVD - PBS Special on the Effects of Global Warming in the US.

3. An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore, DVD and Book.

Water Issues

1. Water: Sacred and Profane, VHS

2. Leasing the Rain, PBS Special with Bill Moyers, VHS

3. Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution and Profit, by Vandana Shiva

4. Water Wars: Drought, Flood, Folly and the Politics of Thirst, by Diane Raines Ward

5. The Columbia River Watershed: Caring for Creation and the Common Good, An International Pastoral Letter by the Catholic Biships of the Region

6. Challenge for Humanity: a Thirsty Planet, A Paper by National Geographic

7. Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water, by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke

Care of the Earth

1. The Non-Toxic Home and Office, by Debra Lynn Dadd

2. Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic Living,by Annie Bertold-Bond

3. The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 100 Ways You Can Heal the Earth, Edited by Jeremy Rifkin

4. Household Ecoteam Workbook: From the Global Action Plan for the Earth, by David Gershon and Robert Gilman

5. The Green Consumer Guide: From Hairspray to Hamburgers - Shopping for a Better Environment, by John Elkington and Julia Hailes

6. Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy, by Lester Brown and Sandra Postel.

7. 50 Simple things You Can Do to Save the Earth, by The Earth Works Group.

Response to the Devastation of the AIDS/HIV Crisis

1. Gospel Imperatives in the Midst of AIDS, by Robert Iles

2. When AIDS Comes to Church, by William Amos

Response to the Need for Dialogue within the Church

1. Woman Strength: Modern Church, Modern Woman, by Joan Chittister

2. Prophetic Imagination, by Walter Bruggemann

3. How to Save the Catholic Church, by Andrew Greely and Mary Greely Durk

Response to the Need for Dialogue with Other Cultures and Religious Traditions

1. Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third-World Eyes, by Robert Brown

2. Jesus through Jewish Eyes, by Barbara Bruteau

Human Trafficking

1. Dying to Leave: Immigration and Human Trafficking, VCR

2. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, by Barbara Ehrenreich

3. The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade, by Victor Malarek

4. Understanding Global Slavery, by Keven Bales

5. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy, by Kevin Bales

6. Slave: My True Story, by Mende Nazer

7. Sisters and Daughters Betrayed, VHS by Global Fund for Women

8. So Deep a Violence, VHS by Coalition Against Trafficking in Women

The 32nd General Chapter urges us to respond to certain needs of our world and our Congregation.