Steven Bouma-Prediger

Steven Bouma-Prediger is Professor of Religion and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. A graduate of Hope College, his Ph.D. is in religious studies from The University of Chicago.

His most recent book is For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care, revised second edition. The first edition received an Award of Merit by Christianity Today as one of the books of the year for 2001. Other books include Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement, co-authored with Brian Walsh, Evocations of Grace, co-edited with Peter Bakken, Assessing the Ark: A Christian Perspective on Non-Human Creatures and the Endangered Species Act, co-authored with Virginia Vroblesky, and The Greening of Theology: The Ecological Models of Rosemary Reuther, Joseph Sittler, and Juergen Moltmann.

He has won numerous teaching awards, including being voted by Hope's class of 1999 to receive the Hope Outstanding Professor-Educator Award, being chosen in 2001 by the student body to receive Hope's Outstanding Faculty Award, and being selected in 2008 by the Hope chapter of Mortar Board to give a "Last Lecture."

His wife, Celaine, is a marriage and family therapist and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. They have three girls--Anna, Chara, and Sophia--and many pets.