By Caroline D'Angelo on 07/30/2010
Everybody should support sustainable agriculture because it will help alleviate health problems, environmental pollution and help strengthen communities…but Christians have added incentive to do so, since it is a way of worship, Biblically relevant and connected to teachings of Jesus…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, agriculture, Bible, christian faith, Creation Care, environment, environmental ethics, ethics, ethics of eating, farming, food, Jesus, Sustainable Agriculture |
By Christine Sine on 07/19/2010
Have you ever wondered what air conditioning has to do with Christian faith? Its obviously not something that Jesus thought about so why should we get concerned?…
Posted in Environment & Creation | Tagged air pollution, christian environmentalism, christian faith, Christine Sine, conserving energy, energy consumption, environment, keeping cool, summer |
By Chuck Summers on 06/30/2010
I’ve tried to think about how God sees this disaster. Because people are hurting I know God hurts too. The same thing goes for the wildlife. An entire ecosystem God created is threatened. This has to bring Him grief. God has asked us to be stewards of His Creation, not destroyers…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP oil spill, Christian response to oil spill, creation, Creation Care, creation groans, faith and the environment, Gulf Oil Spill, lament, new creation, oil spill, theology of creation |
By Jason Fowler on 06/21/2010
The Gulf oil spill is an open wound- it is the lifeblood of the Industrial Age- mixing with the salty tears of GOD…Our future lies in humility before GOD and not in our utopian dreams. From that point of reconciliation a new way of life can begin…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged BP oil spill, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, Creation Care, deepwater horizon, environment, environmental crisis, Gulf Coast, industrial age, oil spill |
By Michael Marsh on 06/09/2010
The gulf oil spill bears witness that we have rejected our earthliness, forgotten who we are, and broken the sacred connection between ourselves and our world. As Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes, “The human being has rejected his role as the priest of creation by making himself God in creation.”
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Christian response to BP oil spill, creation, Creation Care, creation groaning, creation's lament, deepwater horizon, environment, Genesis 2:7, Gulf Oil Spill, oil spill, Priest of Creation, St. Anthony, St. Antony, theology of creation, witness of creation |
By Russell D. Moore on 06/09/2010
As I type this, I am looking out at the Gulf of Mexico…those waters I grew up with, gently lapping against the sand, are threatening to bring with them millions of gallons of oil…Five years after Hurricane Katrina leveled this hometown of mine, it is bracing for the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Christian response to oil spill, Conservatism, Creation Care, environment, Evangelicalism, Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, oil spill, Russell D. Moore |
By Scott Williams on 06/07/2010
Please join me in prayer for the families of those who died and were injured, for those whose lives and livelihoods have been affected, for those working to clean up the spill, and for God’s creatures and creations that are damaged…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged BP, Creation Care, Creation Hope, Environment & Creation, Gulf Coast, lament, oil spill, Prayer, Scott Williams |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 06/07/2010
During the Duke Center for Reconciliation’s Summer Institute, Christians from varied denominations, backgrounds, and nations gathered to explore the work Christ is doing in reconciling all things…As followers of Christ…we mourn the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe and the BP oil spill now polluting the Gulf of Mexico…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged beyond petroleum, christian faith, Christian response to BP oil spill, deepwater horizon, Duke Center for Reconciliation, ecology, environment, environmental disaster, godly grieving, Gulf of Mexico, lament, oil spill, reconciliation, repent |
By Ragan Sutterfield on 04/26/2010
Four and a half miles from the end of our hike, we came across a gigantic pile of sawdust…this area had been clear cut and run through the mill. Now that history was mostly invisible except with careful observation…
Posted in Agrarian Notebook, Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged creation, ecology, Gerard Manley Hopkins, great outdoors, hiking, nature, resurrection, sawmill |
By Jason Fowler on 04/22/2010
We must again go back to the source. GOD made Adam from adamah and we must remember that we are both people of GOD’s breathe and people of the earth. We are called to cultivate, steward and renew…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged christian faith, creation, Creation Care, earth day, technology and faith |
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