Creation Care Articles
Caring for God’s Creatures—Great and Small
- By Karen Swallow Prior
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Before God made Eve, He brought Adam the animals. Read more...
Green Revolution
- By Margot Starbuck
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Having witnessed the damaging effects of drought, deforestation, pollution and urbanization while growing up in Singapore and Malaysia, environmental activist Ben Lowe is on more than a personal mission to save the world. Through the Renewal Project and his book, Green Revolution, Lowe is inspiring and equipping the rest of us to join him. Read more...
Building Your House from Straw
- By Adam Bodendieck
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I blame the three little pigs. Whenever I’m discussing the concept of straw bale building with someone, they invariably bring up those famous pigs, and who am I to argue with fairy tale wisdom? Read more...
Protesting Pipeline Dreams
- By Joanna Castle Miller
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On a quiet Monday morning in August, monks and ministers gathered under tall trees outside of the White House and began organizing their plan for the day: They would walk in two lines to the mansion's gates, sit down and wait for arrest. While this objective may seem a strange task for a minister, it was no ordinary workday. This was the day faith-based organizations joined environmental groups in mass protests over a proposed oil pipeline. Read more...
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Opportunity in the Rubble
- By Scott Sabin
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It is almost impossible to overstate the impact of the earthquake in Haiti. Estimates of the death toll stand at 230,000 people. Port-au-Prince and many of the outlying communities are still heaps of rubble, with most of the population living outdoors. Read more...
A Christian Response to the Oil Spill
- By Jonathan Merritt
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What does the Gulf oil spill symbolize to you? Perhaps American consumerism? Maybe the incredible potential of human beings to destroy creation? What about the coming apocalypse? According to a recent Newsweek article by Lisa Miller entitled, “Blood in the Water,” some Christians see the oil spill as a sign from God that the end is near. Read more...
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How Ethical Is Your Food?
- By Nathan Bechtold
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In an episode of the comedy Portlandia, a man and woman grill their server about the chicken they intend to order. She tells them the chicken (whose name is Colin) was raised locally, fed a diet of "sheep's milk, soy and hazelnuts" and he roamed free on four acres of land (though she can't speak to whether Colin "palled around" with his chicken buddies). The server then hands over the chicken's "papers"—a form complete with his information and an attached photo. Read more...
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Living a Green Revolution
- By Ben Lowe
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Tolstoy famously declared, "Everybody wants to change the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." Any call to transformation must first begin with ourselves. Integrity counts. If we want to be listened to, we first need to practice what we preach; if we advocate taking care of the environment, we had better make sure our lives match up. Read more...
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Bridging the Environmental Gap
- By Anna M. Clark
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When I first started sharing my convictions about the environment, I thought, If I can just make people understand that saving the planet is the most critical issue of our time, we might all be okay, not understanding how sheltered and lopsided that point of view appears to many people. Try telling a mother whose child is terminally ill that melting glaciers should matter to her. Try telling a breadwinner who fears losing his job about the plight of the polar bear. Try telling a fundamentalist Christian who sees the end times as imminent that she should care about preserving the planet. Read more...
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