When God Was Flesh and Wild

Bob Haverluck is an artist storyteller who works with community groups using the arts to help engage issues of conflict and violence against the earth and her creatures. Recently he has been resident artist for three year-long arts-based ecology projects attentive to rivers, lakes and forests. His drawings have appeared in Harpers, New Statesman, Arts: Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, etc. Bob has led courses and conferences on the arts, the Bible, and social change with particular attention to the role of comedy and community. From 2001 to 2003 he was artist-in-residence at the University of Winnipeg. His book publications include Love Your Enemies . . . and Other Neighbours… and Peace: Perspectives on Peace/Conflict.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Ched Myers
Introduction
1 The King of Bigger and More
2 The God of Flesh and Wild
3 Little Sparrows See God Fall
4 Jailbird John and the Choirs of the Creatures
Postscript: Story Sources, Themes, and Ways Stories Have Been Used
Selected Reading and Listening