Care of Creation and Eden Vigil, two Christian creation care organizations cohosted a Consultation on Environmental Missions in Manhattan KS July 12-16. A small group of environmental and missions leaders spent three days together hashing out issues toward establishing EnvironmentalRead more…
Millennium Development Goal #7
I would like to invite us to begin the conversation on the environment using research and other existing material (MDG #7 & IFES Symposium on Faith and the Environment) as the foundation or platform for our discussions on this topicRead more…
To Be an Earth-Keeper is to Be My Brother’s Keeper: Care of Creation.
(Adding my voice to those of Scott Sabin, Las Newman, Ken Gnanakan, Rod Green and others…) I am someone who values a sense of wonder. There is an immediacy and simplicity to wonder that points me to my Creator andRead more…
Is God Green? Bible and Ecology
An article about Bible and Ecology
The Deeper Problem
A Response to Scott Sabin’s ‘Whole Earth Evangelism’ While I don’t disagree with Scott Sabin’s thoughts, I am uncomfortable with “piling on more doom and gloom.” True, the average North American is disconnected from the environment, and that disconnect hasRead more…
Ecology, the New Opium of the People
A Response to Scott Sabin’s ‘Whole Earth Evangelism’ Scott Sabin rightly mentioned the heartbreaking situation of Haiti. In video images of the recent tragic earthquake, we saw a striking contrast between the denuded wilderness of the west side of theRead more…
‘All things’ means all things
The ‘Reflections of the Lausanne Theology Working Group 2010’ provide an excellent foundation for thinking biblically about our responsibility to care for God’s Creation: ’God has reconciled all things in heaven and earth to himself through the blood of hisRead more…
Cold Water in Jesus’ Name
On a precarious slope, Etienne digs into the dusty soil with a small hoe, planting beans in hope of the rains. In recent years these rains have become unpredictable. Miles away, his wife is returning from the forest, a bundleRead more…
The Challenge Of Environmental Stewardship
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Las Newman and Ken Gnanakan as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “The Environmental Crisis, the Gospel and Christian Witness.” ResponsesRead more…
The Challenge Of Environmental Stewardship
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Las Newman and Ken Gnanakan as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “The Environmental Crisis, the Gospel and Christian Witness.” ResponsesRead more…