Why should Christians be interested in the health of the environment? Is it only for some pragmatic reason, such as "clean air is good for us" or is there a Biblical support for stewardship of the environment? Many believers are put off by the new age-iness of some "tree huggers;" is this sufficient reason to …
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Evangelical Christian perspectives on the environment
Christianity Today magazine asked three Christian leaders "How concerned should Christians be about environmental care?" The answers are short, but serve as an introduction to the range of answers that exist among Evangelicals. Each of these writers, from politically liberal to conservative, has insights that Evangelicals need to take into consideration as we think about …
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Creation Care and Climate Change
There is no inherent reason for a scientist to not be a Christian, nor for a Christian to care deeply about the creation. From the Harvard Divinity Bulletin: The Greening of Jesus by Mark Pinsky. Riding the train down to London last summer, after a two-week fellowship session on science and religion at the University …
Why don’t we get it?
Dean Ohlman has 21 Reasons That Evangelicals Don't Get Creation Care over at Restoring Eden. Here are a few: 1. Evangelicals understand that people are special because we’re made in the image of God, but we typically fail to see that the non-human creation is also special because it was created “very good” by the …
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