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Nov 16 2005

New Religious Coalition Brings Balanced Biblical Perspective to Environmental Issues

By Cornwall Alliance / November 16, 2005

Washington, DC – In a marriage of environmental concern and religious faith, the launch of the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation* was announced by Ugandan Ambassador Edith Ssempala, along with a distinguished group of Alliance organizers, at a press conference at the Embassy of the Republic of Uganda. The Cornwall Alliance adds a […]

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Oct 31 2005

No Sure Bet: Two Replies to Andy Crouch’s “Environmental Wager”

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 31, 2005

The August 2005 issue of Christianity Today (vol. 49, no. 8, p. 66) carried an alarmist piece about global warming by Andy Crouch titled “Environmental Wager” that condemned critics of global warming alarmism and prescribed endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol to reduce CO2 emissions and mitigate global warming as a new variation on Pascal’s Wager

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Sep 7 2005

Pascal’s Blunder: Miscalculating the Threat of Global Warming

By Jordan Ballor / September 7, 2005

Prominent religious voices in America, especially among evangelical Christians, are increasingly being heard in the debate over global warming. More often than not, evangelicals – many of whom could easily be described as political and cultural conservatives – see climate change as a man-made problem. The National Association of Evangelicals, a coalition representing 52

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Apr 20 2005

God, Man, and the Environment

By Samuel Gregg D. Phil. / April 20, 2005

On April 22nd, much of the world will celebrate international Earth Day. Like many fads, the popularity of this event has waned throughout much of the West. This may owe something to the fact that the dire consequences predicted by many ecologists have not eventuated. Despite this, many people of faith continue to preach a

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Apr 30 2004

Dominion and Stewardship: Believers and the Environment

By Samuel Gregg D. Phil. / April 30, 2004

“Man is created to praise, reverence and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. The other things on the face of the earth are created for man to help him in attaining the end for which he is created. Hence, man is to make use of them in as far

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Oct 29 1999

Early and Notable Signers of the Cornwall Declaration

By E. Calvin Beisner / October 29, 1999

Sixty-six people from the Roman Catholic, Jewish and Protestant communities, as well as other layman, pastors, scholars, and religious leaders, endorsed the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship when it was first released in March of 2000. By June 22, 2000, more than 921 others had joined them. Those first 987 signers are listed below. (Organizational affiliations are for identification only and do not

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