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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#669999" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cherishing the  Earth</B><B>    </B></FONT><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cherishing the Earth"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>       </B></div> <div> by Martin J Hodson and Margot R Hodson<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      </B></FONT></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=175 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="052afc00egerdp.jpg"> <bR> <div> <A HREF="synopsis.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Book synopsis"><U><B>Book synopsis</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>About us</B></div> <div> <A HREF="biblestudies.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bible studies"><U><B>Bible studies</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="commendations.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Commendations"><U><B>Commendations</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="reviews.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews"><U><B>Reviews</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="howtobuy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How to buy"><U><B>How to buy</B></U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>About us</I></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="05e93e50.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="229" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="10"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Since February 2009 Martin and Margot Hodson have lived in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, UK. The Hodsons are both members of Sage, Oxford's Christian Environmental Group, and would particularly like to thank Sage for all their support during the production of this book. We dedicated our book to the memory of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="dedication.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Dedication"><U>Dave Steel</U></A></FONT>, one of the founders of Sage, who sadly died in November 2006. The Hodsons are keen country walkers. For more details of Martin and Margot's various activities see their web site <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hodsons.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hodsons.org"><U>hodsons.org</U></A></FONT></div> <div> We are available to give talks about the book, faith and environment or whatever, but need a fair amount of warning! You can contact us by email: martin OR margot AT hodsons.org</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0a993c40.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="196" ALT="Martin Hodson" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="10"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dr Martin J Hodson</B> is now Visiting Researcher in Environmental Biology, <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.brookes.ac.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.brookes.ac.uk"><U>Oxford Brookes University</U></A></FONT>, UK, having been on the staff since 1989. His research interests include plant mineral relations (particularly focussing on silicon and aluminium), archaeology and palaeoecology.  He has over 90 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hodsons.org/MartinHodson/publications.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hodsons.org/MartinHodson/publ"><U>publications</U></A></FONT>, mostly in international scientific journals. Martin is Operations Manager for the John Ray Initiative (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk"><U>JRI</U></A></FONT>). He  has been involved in issues of faith and environment since 1990, and is Principal Tutor for Christian Rural and Environmental Studies (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.cres.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cres.org.uk"><U>CRES</U></A></FONT>). This is a distance-learning course that is jointly run by the John Ray Initiative and A Rocha UK, and is validated by <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.rcc.ac.uk/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.rcc.ac.uk/"><U>Ripon College, Cuddesdon</U></A></FONT> nr. Oxford, UK.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0ab93c40.jpg" border=0 width="147" height="196" ALT="Margot Hodson (on right!)" ALIGN="RIGHT" HSPACE="10" VSPACE="10"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Revd Margot R Hodson</B> is now priest-in-charge of the benefice of Haddenham, Cuddington, Kingsey & Aston Sandford (from February 2009). See <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.haddenhamstmarys.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.haddenhamstmarys.org/"><U>St Mary's, Haddenham</U></A>. </FONT>She was previously Chaplain of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jesus.ox.ac.uk/"><U>Jesus College</U></A></FONT>, Oxford, UK. Her active involvement in nature conservation let her towards her first degree in geography. On graduating, she taught geography in comprehensive schools, before leaving to read theology, where she specialised in the Jewish biblical studies and environmental theology. After several years in lay ministry, Margot was ordained as a minister in the Church of England in 2001. She has a lifelong interest in the environment and is on the Operations Team of the John Ray Initiative (<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.jri.org.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.jri.org.uk"><U>JRI</U></A></FONT>), an educational charity with a vision to bring together scientific and Christian understanding of the environment in a way that can be widely communicated and lead to effective action. Margot is the JRI representative on the board of <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://en.arocha.org/ukmembers/index2.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://en.arocha.org/ukmembers/index2.ht"><U>A Rocha UK</U></A></FONT>. She has taught environmental ethics at <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.brookes.ac.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.brookes.ac.uk"><U>Oxford Brookes University</U></A></FONT>. Margot has published several books including <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.hodsons.org/Afeastofseasons/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hodsons.org/Afeastofseasons/"><U>A Feast of Seasons</U></A></FONT>, a book about Biblical festivals, and `<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="http://www.cebts.eu/programme/doc/environmental-theology-course-2007.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cebts.eu/programme/doc/enviro"><U>The Place of Environmental Theology</U></A></FONT>, a guide for seminaries, colleges and universities' (an edited volume with John Weaver). </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>