Our Vision
We aspire to a world in which people, made in the image of God, reconciled to Him by Jesus Christ, and reflecting God’s own creativity, work together to enhance the fruitfulness, beauty, and safety of the earth, enabling more and more of our neighbors to enjoy good health, long life, freedom, justice, and spiritual and material abundance in a world full of life and beauty, for the glory of God and the good of our fellow man, thus addressing the two Great Commandments to love God and love our neighbor.
Our Mission
We seek to magnify the glory of God in creation, the wisdom of His truth in environmental stewardship, the kindness of His mercy in lifting the needy out of poverty, and the wonders of His grace in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
To this end we work to educate the public and policymakers about Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the gospel of Jesus Christ, with the Christian worldview, theology, and ethics that come with it.
Fleshing Out Our Mission
Cornwall Alliance is on a mission. It’s a big mission—way too big for any one person. Here it is:
- to save the lost by means of the gospel of Jesus Christ (John 3:16; Acts 4:12);
- to save churches from false teachings about God, creation, humanity, sin, and salvation by teaching people to “test all things, hold fast what is good” (1 Thessalonians 5:21);
- to save the poor from counterproductive environment and energy policies (Galatians 2:10);
- to save the public, especially the young, from false environmental propaganda in news, entertainment, politics, and education (2 Timothy 4:1–5);
- to save free people from government overreach (Psalm 94:20–21), even while working to ensure just governments that save people from oppression (Psalm 72);
- to “save the planet from the people who are saving the planet” (Romans 1:20–25).
In 2005, encouraged by others who shared his concerns, Cal Beisner founded The Cornwall Alliance. Cal’s early childhood in Calcutta, India, where he observed both the beauties of God’s creation and the tragedies of poverty, informed his later concerns for caring for both the natural world and the poor. His theological and philosophical studies in the 1970s led to his studying political and economic philosophy and the economics of population, resources, and the environment in the 1980s and 1990s, leading to his extensive writing and teaching on the subjects. In 1999, after a colloquium with about 35 other scholars with shared interest in these subjects, Cal composed The Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, which was quickly endorsed by over 1,500 religious leaders from around the world. It became the platform on which he founded The Cornwall Alliance.
The Alliance has grown into a network of over 60 Christian theologians, natural scientists, economists, and other scholars educating for: (1) Biblical earth stewardship (enhancing the fruitfulness, beauty, and safety of the earth, to the glory of God and the benefit of our neighbors), (2) economic development for the poor (through private property rights, entrepreneurship, free trade, limited government, and the rule of law, with access to the abundant, affordable, reliable energy indispensable to all economic production), and (3) the proclamation and defense of the good news of forgiveness of sins and salvation for sinners by God’s grace, received through faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.
