One of the great misunderstandings about the care of creation, perpetuated by many environmentalists, is that the main beneficiary of environmental action is…the environment. Don’t get me wrong–a Christian worldview clearly recognizes the intrinsic value of the created order, which God called “good.” In fact, as C.S. Lewis argued in The Abolition of Man, it [...]
Creation Care
What made this Bible-believing church start prayer gardens, energy audits, and a Creation Care Week? Believing the Bible, of course.
A radical woman of faith and action, Denise Giardina defends the creation and the way of life she belongs to against mountaintop removal mining in West Viriginia.
“Shalom doesn’t begin once every last person is convinced they need to get on board. It begins with a few people planting gardens in a land at war. It begins with a field.”
Rootlessness, identity loss, and despair threaten today’s “ecological exiles.” Is there any hope of finding a home?
“Our lives may be largely defined by what we keep and what we discard. Christ was abandoned on the cross, despised and rejected. Yet just because something is thrown away doesn’t mean that it wasn’t worth saving.”
What do we miss when creation goes missing?
Good food advice–for those who can afford it.
A thoughtful and clarifying, but incomplete, search for merely Christian differentiation in the environmental movement.
An education: A Costa Rican community re-learns redevelopment in the wake of environmental disaster.
Brennan Bird, recently dubbed “Greenest College Student Of The Year,” conducted an eco-project in which he saved all the trash he produced for a year and lived with it in his dorm room both to raise get people to question their own consumption habits and to get himself to see his own environmental impact.
The Crossing’s motivation for restoring a degraded piece of property was much more than just curb appeal.
The carpool declined in popularity in the 20th century, but is it having a renaissance? Here are three steps to bringing the carpool to church.
