Allan Harvey wrote:
> 5) To tie something to the concerns of the ASA list. God calls us to be
> good stewards of the creation. Some stewardship decisions are easy (not
> wasting energy, not littering, considering fuel efficiency when buying a
> car), but then there are cases like this that are not obvious. As Joel
> mentioned and I would agree, simply taking the word of Greenpeace (or even
> of less loopy groups such as the Sierra Club) as to what is good
> stewardship is not necessarily wise. Maybe if we Christians spent less
> time arguing about the means of creation, we could be better equipped to be
> good stewards of creation. I know there is some work along that line
> (there is an Evangelical Environmental Network, and Cal DeWitt has written
> some books), but I at least have not paid as much attention to that area as
> I probably should.
Several denominations, including the ELCA, PCUSA, ECUSA, Orthodox Church, &c
have developed environmental statements, formed work &/or interest groups on
environmental issues &c. The "mainline" churches have perhaps too much of a tendency to
be influenced by "loopy" environmentalism bot OTOH aren't as likely to see the
environmental movement as a Gaia conspiracy theory as are some Evangelicals.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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