Sentences with phrase «creation care»

The term also came up among those rejecting the science of global warming and the importance of creation care.

Was my church right in remaining silent on creation care?

It can be intimidating to know where to start as we begin prioritizing creation care.

One of those areas was the lack of dialogue in the American evangelical churches around creation care.

Between our home and office libraries, we probably have about as many books on creation care.

We need to rediscover the scriptural basis for creation care, engage our planet's daunting problems and propose solutions most Christians are comfortable with.

Reading through the Bible with creation care in mind revealed that my spiritual and environmental journeys were not disparate or mutually exclusive; they were one and mutually supportive.

In the past several years, I've been blessed by opportunities to preach and teach about creation care all across America, and I've heard every kind of objection and rationalization for not protecting our earthly ark of life.

I have been involved with Creation Care for years, but climate was not the main focus — it was more directly related to water and oceans.

So, do you teach creation care?

The Baltimore Green Forum is Co-sponsored by Simplicity Matters Earth Institute, Transition Baltimore, Network of Spiritual Progressives in MD, Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network, Baltimore Climate Action Network, Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, Inc., Parks & People, Greater Baltimore Group of the Sierra Club, Heathcote Community, Creation Care Group of the Presbytery of Baltimore, and Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance

I was aware of the standard biblical proof texts supporting creation care but, as Shakespeare once wrote, «the devil can cite Scripture for his own purpose.»

What's less clear is who will find its exhortation on creation care persuasive — particularly among evangelicals.

CT regularly covers creation care, including whether evangelicals have changed the climate change conversation and how the greening of the gospel has been going on since the 1990s.

«We evangelicals will be eagerly reading «over the shoulders,» so to speak, of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to whom the letter is addressed,» said Ed Brown, director of Lausanne's Creation Care Network.

While creation care is a frequent target for the issue exclusionists, this is a domain full of potential common ground.

Creation care goes beyond the usual turning out the lights when you leave a room (though that's still an important step).

Renewal is a student - led creation care organization that hopes to inspire, connect and equip Christians to answer God's call to be good stewards of His creation.

Furthermore, I tried to ask different questions using similar themes that are of specific interest to pastors — for example, the role of faith, issues like creation care and abortion, religious liberty, etc..

In practice, creation care opens new doors for sharing Christ's love.

Creation care pioneer Cal DeWitt calls the Endangered Species Act «the Noah's ark of our day,» and Peter Illyn, who leads the Christian conservation group Restoring Eden, bluntly summarizes, «Extinction is not stewardship.»

«A balanced theology of creation care accepts that God created a world in which the events that we call «natural disasters» have a normal role to play,» he said.

Ed Brown, who oversees creation care efforts for the Lausanne Movement, warns against seeing worsening storms as a result of God's wrath.

Still, the link between creation care and Kingdom work is one that needs repairing.

by Deborah McNamara on December 11, 2013 0 creation care eco-justice faith green congregations Green Sanctuary Program Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto UUMFE

Cool Congregations are faith communities recognized by the national Interfaith Power & Light campaign for their outstanding work toward reducing their carbon footprint and promoting creation care.

Each working group approaches creation care from a unique angle, which allows Beth HaTephila to address the issue comprehensively.

The church's comprehensive and challenging creation care program has earned First Unitarian the title of a Cool Congregation!

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(One young woman from a mainline church put it this way: «I wasn't learning anything about justice or creation care in church that I wasn't learning in school.

Set aside debates of land rights — for Christians the DAPL controversy is fundamentally about creation care.

Then during the last six weeks of class, they finish both Seeing Systems and Resisting Structural Evil, write a research paper and put forth their own theology of creation care.

Risky Business — Cal Beisner of Cornwall Alliance, explains the hidden dangers of the National Day of Prayer for Creation Care.

We want to be challenged to live lives of holiness, not only when it comes to sex, but also when it comes to living simply, caring for the poor and oppressed, pursuing reconciliation, engaging in creation care and becoming peacemakers.

I'm not an expert in creation care, but I'm trying to do the work of figuring out where I can help, instead of harm.

How did you become interested in evangelicalism and its contribution to the creation care movement and its rhetoric?

Sacramental Worldview / Creation Care: Look, it's the Reformed tradition where I was first introduced to a theological framework of creation care.

I do doubt, however, that there is much «common ground» to be found with «creation care» folks who implicitly worship Gaia rather than the God of the Bible.

Can we see how both the refugee crisis and creation care are able to fall under what it means to be a disciple of Jesus?

But creation care is both a scriptural mandate and an urgent need.

Ashley Emert writes an article for the third undergraduate edition of the RELEVANT Magazine College Guide about different areas of social justice — poverty, loss of innocents, violence, creation care and preventable disease — and how freshmen can get involved while on - campus.

The simplistic gospel of being saved from earth for a home elsewhere in heaven has been replaced by a grand narrative of God's redemption story that encompasses social justice, creation care, and a fresh vision of the mission of the global Church.

Now they profess at some of our best universities, parse postmodernity, and preach «creation care» with liberal fervor.

An example of that for me was when I showed up to speak at a conference, which was talking about creation care and nonviolence.

Creation care is a growing concern among evangelicals, though they are also concerned that some of the decisions of environmentalists hurt poor people.

When asked what had brought us to this mountaintop retreat center, Matthew briefly told him about our creation care ministry, Blessed Earth.

Though its website features pretty pictures of the outdoors, Cornwall's primary focus is criticizing the Christian «creation care» movement and environmentalism in general, which they literally demonize as «the Green Dragon.»

In all of your life you're probably wanting to apply the ideals of equality, creation care, justice and mercy (however you express those things).