What’s your earliest memory in nature? For many of us it occurred right outside our childhood homes. For me, I was wrist deep in dirt, sitting uphill from a creek lined with oaks and willows. With my mom’s garden shovel,…
On Earth Day: Let’s walk on water together
The Apostle Peter may seem an odd subject choice for a message about Earth Day, but hear me out on this one. I always have felt a special affinity with Peter. He is the disciple of Jesus who seemed to…
How do we pray for the care of creation? The Beatitudes give us guidance
God loves this world that God created at the beginning of time. Through our prayers and our actions, we return some of the love that God has bestowed on us.
Apocalypse soon? Faith communities and preparing for the environmental end times
The creeping things got here first, Genesis tells us. Human beings came later. That was then; this is now: it appears that millennia later humanity is working diligently to reverse creation and be alone again.
Church and creation care: we need a theology-before-politics approach
What has happened to us, that conversations about our cosmic home have become so divisive? What would happen if we were all curious enough to learn from science, scripture and one another?
Earth Day: an urgent call to creation care and environmental justice
Earth Day is a reminder that environmental justice and climate change solutions must move beyond a new appreciation of creation to include listening to and learning from the poor and marginalized of our own communities and the voices of those from around the world.
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Plans underway for the Alliance of Baptists’ 2018 Annual Gathering
By Toya Richards Alliance members and supporters from near and far will unite under the theme “Earth: Beloved Community” at the 2018 Annual Gathering set for April 26-29 in Dayton, Ohio. Registration is open! “We are excited about once again…
Network to promote creation care, eco-justice among American Baptists
A new national network reflecting what organizers term a growing sense of call to creation care and eco-justice among the American Baptist Churches USA held an inaugural meeting Sept. 22-23 in Sherborn, Mass. The ABC Creation Justice Network, envisioned in…
Baptist leader applauds papal message on environment
By Bob Allen A Baptist ethicist welcomed Pope Francis’ upcoming encyclical on the environment as “a hinge moment” not only for Catholics. “The environment needs to be at the heart of the Christian moral agenda, and it isn’t,” Robert Parham…