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By Pam Fowler on 02/18/2010
I was not being fair to those that need to think about their basic needs first. So I started to think, how can I help those with limited choices not only have what they need to live but to give them choices?
Posted in Features, Learning As We Go | Tagged alternative energy, christian faith, Creation Care, environment, Intentional Living, Poverty, Social Justice, sustainable development, Sustainable Living
By Rusty Pritchard on 02/18/2010
I often hear the claim that environmentalism is a kind of new religion, usually from folks who are trying to disparage the movement. I think it’s partly right but it’s not enough to claim that environmentalism seems like a religion. We have to provide some answers for what to do…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Christian faith and the environment, Creation Care, enviro-legalism, environmental fundamentalism, environmentalism as religion, Jesus, legalism, Rusty Pritchard
By Meg Dunn on 02/12/2010
Caring for the environment is a moral issue. How we interact with the world around us, not just with other people but with the stuff of the earth, is not a matter of right, but of responsibility…
Posted in Book Reviews, Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Biblical view of Creation, book review, Christian ecology, christian stewardship, Christian worldview, Creation Care, Francis Schaeffer, Pollution and the Death of Man, Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship, Theology
By Lucas Land on 02/12/2010
Many of the oldest established community gardens were started by people that claimed some abandoned space and started planting there. I love the idea of sneaking life into dead places. It sounds a lot like the gospel to me.
Posted in Book Reviews, Features | Tagged book review, Creation Care, David Tracey, Gardening, guerrilla gardening, Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto, Lucas Land, Peter Brown, The Curious Garden, What Would Jesus Eat
By Magdalena Perks on 01/26/2010
“Sustainable Traditions” are the self-supporting, self-regenerating methods and ways that our antecedents bequeathed us, whether those were from agriculture, religion, politics, architecture or philosophy. It isn’t necessarily the big stuff. It is often the littlest stuff…
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged Christian ecology, christian faith, Creation Care, faith and the environment, sustainable traditions, tradition
By J Fowler on 12/24/2009
We are creatures, limited and dependent, living in a world that God created out of the trinitarian community of love…It is our role as Christians to live as limited and dependent creatures so that the creation might flourish and all can enjoy the abundance that God has created…
Posted in Features, Interviews | Tagged agrarian, Biblical agrarian, book, Christian agrarian, christian faith, church farm movement, Creation Care, Environment & Creation, farming, Farming As A Spiritual Discipline, Gene Logsdon, interview, Joel Salatin, ragan sutterfield, stewardship, Sustainable Agriculture, Theology, Wendell Berry
By Rich Vincent on 12/18/2009
An unbiblical view of creation will lead us to wrong living. Our theology affects our practice. Only a robust view of creation guides us in how we should live in God’s world.
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features, Theology | Tagged Biblical Worldview, Creation Care, psalm 104, Rich Vincent, science and faith, sustainable christian living, Theology, theology of creation, worldviews
By Dean Ohlman on 11/30/2009
In his book Biology Through the Eyes of Faith, Dr. Richard Wright speaks of the Cyrus Principle in reference to the many non-Christians who have worked diligently to preserve the wonder and integrity of God’s creation and have in essence done what God’s children could have and should have at least been actively involved in.
Posted in Environment & Creation | Tagged Biology Through The Eyes of Faith, christian environmentalism, Creation Care, Cyrus Principle, Dr. Richard Wright, Francis Schaeffer
By Rusty Pritchard on 11/16/2009
Public policy should focus more directly on the things that make people better off, rather than trying to control their reproductive decisions. Coercive population control is immoral, and other efforts at regulating population are less effective than helping families lead productive, rewarding, and flourishing lives.
Posted in Environment & Creation, Features | Tagged christian ethics, Creation Care, environmentalism, overpopulation
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