A Journey Called Aging travels through the sights, landmarks, decisions, and challenges of the years between older adulthood and death. The book focuses major task areas that include: discovering and maintain purpose; holding and building relationships; balancing autonomy, dependence, and interdependence; and facing loss and change.

Is there any hope for a more sustainable world? Can we reimagine a way of living in which the nonhuman world matters? Anne Marie Dalton and Henry C. Simmons claim that the ecotheology that arose during the mid-twentieth century gives us reason for hope. While ecotheologians acknowledge that Christianity played a significant role in creating societies in which the nonhuman world counted for very little, these thinkers have refocused religion to include the natural world. To borrow philosopher Charles Taylor's concept, they have created a new "social imaginary," reimagining a better world and a...