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"Author, spiritual retreat leader, and speaker Leah Rampy examines the interconnectedness of all life on Earth and the human spiritual connection to a planet besieged by climate chaos. Her insightful prose is lyrically rendered, often revealing her deep personal love of the natural world...Thought-provoking and unique, Rampy's book is a fascinating read."
Read Full Review -Kate Robinson, RECOMMENDED by the US Review of Books "Leah Rampy importantly reminds us that our Soul is of Earth and that, until these two are rewoven, our Soul will not be well and Earth will not be healed. This book beautifully belongs to a new threshold of hope."
-John Philip Newell, author of Sacred Earth Sacred Soul "Leah Rampy's Earth and Soul is a teaching sung lovingly to each reader by a wise grandmother, blessing us with ancestors' stories and lessons from our kin in the natural world. If we listen, she is passing down a sacred gift to us for meeting the climate crisis and for weaving a better world."
-Joelle Novey, Director, Interfaith Power & Light (DC.MD.NoVA) "Earth and Soul calls us to develop our capacity for listening and seeing the natural world around us and to rediscover our deep interconnection with it. Through story, science, and experience, Leah Rampy lovingly yet bracingly invites us to envision the climate crisis as an opportunity to weave a new world out of the fragments of the old. Earth and Soul is a beautiful and timely invitation!"
-Rev. Bryan Berghoef, Pastor, Contemplative, and author of Pub Theology: Beer, Conversation and God "Achingly beautiful, Earth and Soul presents a clear-eyed look at our current climate chaos and invites us to go deeply into our souls to find the courage and hope to love and to act. A must-read for anyone who feels despair about the climate crisis. This book will energize and transform you."
-Margaret Benefiel, Executive Director of Shalem Institute, author of Crisis Leadership and The Soul of a Leader "Drawing on the great wisdom traditions and her own deep experience at the intersection of nature and spirit, Leah Rampy invites readers onto a pilgrimage to help heal this world and ourselves. Her book is a much-needed balm for our troubled souls in this time of climate crisis."
-Mary Anne Hitt, climate leader and strategist, former director Beyond Coal Campaign “In Earth and Soul Leah Rampy takes us on a journey to reclaim our purpose, mind, heart, and place – and yes, joy – in a time of extreme uncertainty for all Earth. We accompany Leah on her own journey through exquisitely rendered storytelling as she asks the questions that need to be asked and nudges us into deeper relationship with ourselves, all Earth’s inhabitants, and the Holy.”
-Lindsay McLaughlin, Retreat Leader, Writer, Editor, Friends of Silence “When the news lands with us, the news of the deepening trouble around and ahead, there can be a rush to action and to answers. The urgency of the climate crisis is hard to deny. Yet if we move straight into action, then we will act from where we were before we heard the news, as if unchanged by what we have learned, and our actions will reproduce the patterns that brought us here. Action is needed, yes – but first we must allow ourselves to be changed: humbled, called into question, opened up. Earth and Soul is a book that is brimming with stories of what this looks like, and exercises that you can put into practice. There’s beauty here among the darkness, and wisdom for hard times.”
-Dougald Hine, Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and author of At Work in the Ruins "Leah Rampy has made a great and lyrical contribution toward “the metaphorical work of reweaving soul and Earth.” By turns storyteller and naturalist, spiritual guide and leadership coach, the author invites our inmost selves into true communion with the world -- for its benefit, and for our own. Rampy's eminently readable narrative is the warp, through which she deftly weaves wise insights from a wide range of disciplines, traditions, and thinkers. This worthy volume will soften hearts, open minds, lift spirits, and inspire action; it is a gift to soul, and to Earth, both."
-Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb, Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and Interfaith Power and Light "Dr. Rampy’s book is a call to us to find our soulful connection to the rest of life on Earth and know that our failure to do so will ultimately become the end of our living planet—homosapiens included. Not just for the sake of ourselves, but for those living beings who help to sustain life here—from trees to oceans, from microscopic organisms to human beings, and the generations that we hope will follow. We need to come alive and find consciousness for our role in saving our Mother, called 'Earth.'"
-Therese Taylor-Stinson, Author of Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman; Founding Managing Member/President, Spiritual Directors of Color Network, Ltd. |
"Through effective use of metaphor, deeply personal stories and professional experiences, Leah blends lessons from scientists and spiritual leaders to inspire a deeper relationship with the Earth and her intricately woven systems. She provides thoughtful tools to help us slow down and acknowledge our place in the larger cosmos so we can reconnect and gain wisdom from the natural wonders we forget surround us."
-Krisitn Alexander, Executive Director, Potomac Valley Audubon Society
-Krisitn Alexander, Executive Director, Potomac Valley Audubon Society
New Book Coming! 2025
"The Spiritual Wisdom of Trees [working title] by Beth Norcross and Leah Moran Rampy should hit bookstore shelves just in time for tree-hugger readers to enjoy Spring buds and leaves in 2025. These incredible women from The Center for Spirituality in Nature have signed on to publish with Broadleaf Books — I confess they are also filling a felt need of mine since the popular class at NY Botanical Garden on tree communication was sold out and I couldn’t take it. Yes, trees are social beings and forests are social networks. |
That science has been convincingly proved. But THE SPIRITUAL WISDOM OF TREES goes deeper, showing us trees are also spiritual and have much to offer us spiritually.
Back in the 1970s, Marvin Gaye’s album “What’s Going On” first introduced me to environmentalism. I became a “tree hugger.” Now I will receive spiritual insight on trees as I edit and publish this book for other tree huggers of faith."
-Adrienne Ingram, Editor, Broadleaf Books via LinkedIn
Back in the 1970s, Marvin Gaye’s album “What’s Going On” first introduced me to environmentalism. I became a “tree hugger.” Now I will receive spiritual insight on trees as I edit and publish this book for other tree huggers of faith."
-Adrienne Ingram, Editor, Broadleaf Books via LinkedIn