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	Steve is a graduate (in mathematics and computer science) of Hope College, has masters degrees from the Institute for Christian Studies (in philosophy) and Fuller Theological Seminary (in theology) as well as a Ph.D. in religious studies from The University of Chicago. Steve has written five books: The Greening of Theology; Assessing the Ark: A Christian Perspective on Non-Human Creatures and the Endangered Species Act; Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics (with Peter Bakken); For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care (now in a revised second edition); and Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in an Age of Displacement (with Brian Walsh). He is currently writing a book on ecological virtue ethics from a Christian perspective, entitled What Kind of Person Would Do Something Like That?: A Christian Virtue Ethic.</p>
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	In addition to teaching for four years at North Park College in Chicago and for the last 21 years at Hope College, Steve has also taught at North Park Seminary in Chicago, Fuller Seminary in Los Angeles, and Western Seminary in Holland, Michigan. For the past 17 years Steve has also taught with the Creation Care Study Program in Belize and New Zealand.&nbsp;</p>
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	&ldquo;I have known of Au Sable since the early 1980&rsquo;s and first visited in 1992 for one of the famous Au Sable forums. I have known many of the faculty and staff and recommended study at Au Sable to many students. I have great respect for the work of Au Sable for I have seen its fruit in many ways: in the lives of its faculty and students, in the publications of those associated with its programs, in the creative vision of its board and leaders.&rdquo;</p>
