Good explanation of why the world is broken and why christians should care.

I got this book at a steal, and it was worth the small amount I paid, even with shipping to NZ. It was well done, Lionel knows what he is doing in this area, and it was balanced in its approach, with a few new thoughts to me as well.

One of its advantages is that it is short - it was an easy and quick read, and would be easy for me to give to someone who is thinking on this area as a short read.

But one of its weaknesses is that it is short - while it dealt with the heart of things well, it did seem to skip over or past some of the big controversial questions - climate change and the controversies over it, for instance. While you got a sense that Lionel thought that climate change was a real thing and that common grace means we shouldn't be quick to dismiss the majority scientific opinion, there was little dealing with those questions directly. That is the sort of thing, in a book on God and the environment, that it would have been good to have engaged more.

On the whole good at what it was doing though, and useful for its purpose of an introduction to Christian thinking on matters of environmentalism.