Religion & Ethics 23 - Cornwall Alliance

Jun 24 2015

Bandow: Papal encyclical forgets the ecological benefits of market economies

By E. Calvin Beisner / June 24, 2015

Christian economist Doug Bandow, a long-time friend, has published three thoughtful responses to Laudato Si, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. One is “In Calling on Government, Laudato Si Underestimates Power of the the Market.” It is, as usual, clear and concise. This excerpt is particularly important: … the Pontiff’s own goals conflict. For instance, he speaks

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Jun 22 2015

Jesus and Environmental Sin

By Stephen Vantassel / June 22, 2015

The Patriarch of Rome, Pope Francis, recently published a highly anticipated Encyclical Letter on the environment entitled “Laudato Si: On Care for our Common Home” Much attention has been spent on the Patriarch’s view that climate change is at least partly the fault of human activity (para 23). But I would like to focus on

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Jun 19 2015

Tomorrowland: Even the Best and Brightest Can’t Fix the World

By J.D. King / June 19, 2015

Did Hollywood just figure out the solution to our world’s problems? A week or two ago, I went to see Disney’s latest self-described “epic” sci-fi film, Tomorrowland. To be completely transparent, I didn’t go because I was hooked by the trailer—I wasn’t. Rather, I went because it promised to be an intriguing movie about ideas,

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Jun 15 2015

Hayward Slam Dunks Sachs

By E. Calvin Beisner / June 15, 2015

Economist Jeffrey Sachs directs the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He’s also led the way in the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals–a high-sounding program to end poverty that depends largely on redistributing wealth from the West to the Rest with an obligatory but ineffectual nod toward the need for governmental reform and economic development in impoverished

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May 30 2015

World Magazine Exposes Evangelical Environmentalists’ Growing Dependence on Green-Left Funding

By E. Calvin Beisner / May 30, 2015

Many environmentalists are fond of accusing all critics of their alarms of being in the pocket of industry. World magazine has just turned the tables. In a three-page article, World environment reporter Daniel James Devine reports that evangelical “creation care” organizations like the Evangelical Environmental Network (EEN), its daughter organization Young Evangelicals for Climate Action (YECA), and

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May 13 2015

Vatican Postpones Release of Pope Francis’s Encyclical on Environment

By E. Calvin Beisner / May 13, 2015

Did Cornwall Alliance’s Open Letter to Pope Francis on Climate Change cause the Pope and his advisors to think twice? Maybe, maybe not. But “sources inside Santa Marta [where Pope Francis makes his home] are reporting that the Pope will not be publishing [the] already completed text [of the encyclical], and has—for the time being—tabled

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Mar 27 2015

Building Relationships with the Needy on the Basis of Human Dignity

By Doug Daugherty / March 27, 2015

The most beautiful and most esteemed thing in God’s creation is man. Everyone, male and female, sinner or saint, is made in God’s image. What this means is that we are to act towards every person as if they had inestimable value, because they do. This is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful

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Mar 25 2015

Today Thousands Are Joining in Prayer for the Environment and the Poor!

By Megan (Toombs) Kinard / March 25, 2015

Today is the Cornwall Alliance Day of Prayer for the Environment and the Poor! We chose today because it is Norman Borlaug’s birthday. Dr. Borlaug is known as “The Man Who Fed the World” because of his work increasing crop yields. To learn more about his life click here. For a recent article by Dr.

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Mar 25 2015

Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace

By St. Francis of Assisi / March 25, 2015

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon Where there is doubt, faith, Where there is despair, hope, Where there is darkness, light, Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled

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Mar 25 2015

We Pray for the Thousands of Americans Who Suffer from Fuel Poverty

By E. Calvin Beisner / March 25, 2015

Heavenly Father, I pray for the thousands of Americans who are suffering from fuel poverty, like Sharon Garcia, a single mom in Pueblo, Colorado, whose home doubles as a daycare center—the source of her meager income. Because Colorado’s lawmakers decided to fight global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, Pueblo’s electricity provider replaced inexpensive coal-fired

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