Dr. Norman Habel hails from a farm community in Australia where he first met nature in a local bushland. He has led the move to include The Season of Creation as part of the church year. See seasonofcreation.com. Among other works, he has recently published An Inconvenient Text: Is a Green Reading of the Bible Possible? and the first volume in the new Earth Bible Commentary series, entitled The Birth, the Curse and the Greening of Earth.