Scientists, who study global warming and the impacts it increasingly will be having on our planet, consistently express concern about survival. If our global home suffers even a moderate percentage of the problems about which scientists warn us, all earth's life forms will be in survival mode. How shall we respond? In this book, the author summarizes the changing realities of global warming and explores newly revealed knowledge about how humans have survived over time. We are learning that our natural moral abilities are resources for living through the difficult times that are ahead on a changing planet. These fresh understandings provide a positive way to view human morality; they give us hope that survival mode will not devolve into warring nations, communities, families, individuals. Grace D. Cumming, PhD, combines a scholarly approach to science and ethics with a unique perspective shaped by both 30 years of nursing and her lifetime experiences as a daughter, mother, and grandmother. The results will surprise you.

Grace Cumming Long provides us with a Christian ethics from the perspective of women's experience, rooted in passion and reason, emotion and research. Through a collage of autobiographical narratives and feminist theologies Cumming Long constructs an unconventional approach to moral questioning, using the arts of cooking, painting, quilting, and weaving to illuminate how Christians must be creative in finding faithful ways to respond to God and to the social crises of our day. She examines welfare, reproductive choice, addiction, handicapping conditions, and AIDS within her ethical framework, and maintains that cooperation, dependence, creativity, and the compassionate use of power are the theological values Christians bring to an ethics that move us beyond patriarchy.