The Mills Brothers — and dozens of others — sang “You Always Hurt the One You Love.” Somebody tell the pope it doesn’t have to be that way with sensible energy policy.On June 14th, Pope Francis met with the executives of multi-national energy companies to promote schemes to mitigate what he says are the catastrophic effects of man-made global warming.Speaking to CEOs of Occidental Petroleum, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum and ConocoPhillips at the Vatican, the pope … [Read more...]
Katharine Hayhoe Ventures into Theology
Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist, professor of political science, and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University. Like many climate scientists, she thinks human activity is causing dangerously rapid global warming and that we ought to take expensive steps to stop it. She also identifies as an evangelical, and that's why mainstream media give her so much attention---Time magazine having named her one of the 100 most influential people of 2014.When some … [Read more...]
Climate Alarmists Make Evangelical College Students the Bull’s Eye
For over a decade, evangelicals have been the most skeptical subset of the American population about claims of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming (CAGW).Don’t count on their staying that way.Recently Physics World reported on an experiment conducted at three evangelical colleges to see how students’ views about global warming/climate change would shift if they viewed a professionally done one-hour presentation designed to persuade them that it’s real, mainly human-induced, dangerous, and … [Read more...]
What If Evangelical Students Heard More than One Side of the Global Warming Debate?
Two years ago, evangelical environmental law professor John Murdock wrote in First Things that in 2012 former Evangelical Environmental Network head Jim Ball, author of Global Warming and the Risen Lord, “speaking at the World Wildlife Fund in D.C., [proclaimed] it a ‘fool’s errand’ to try to reach the right side of the evangelical spectrum” with the message that human-induced global warming is real and dangerous enough to justify enormously costly policies to curb it.Lately some evangelicals … [Read more...]
Mother’s Day and Abortion: Hope for the Living and the Lost
I was born through a mother. So were you.But even as I was wishing a happy Mother’s Day to folks yesterday, a primetime news headline on CNN’s international website caught my eyes:“There was no hope.”CNN’s Attack on Mother’s DayThe article talked of the difficulty in getting an abortion in Italy. CNN followed that with an article reporting on why the woman who invented Mother’s Day now regrets it.An unashamed and blatant attack on motherhood was all CNN could … [Read more...]
Who Really Cares about the Environment?
A dozen years ago Arthur Brooks, now President of the American Enterprise Institute, shook the "Look at how much I care! I support government action for the poor!" crowd with his book Who Really Cares: America's Charity Divide--Who Gives, Who Doesn't, and Why It Matters.What he revealed, from painstaking statistical research, is that political liberals, who justify all kinds of government entitlement programs by saying that anyone who really cares about the poor should embrace them, give hardly … [Read more...]
Cornwall Alliance Day of Prayer: A Prayer for our World
Dear GodWe thank you for creating this beautiful world. When you created it, you said that it was good. Help us to care for the Earth that you have entrusted into our care.Lord, you show us in the book of Romans how the creation is groaning under sin and is waiting to be redeemed. Even while the whole of creation waits for the day of redemption, we want to be the channel that carries your light into this weary world. Father, speak your words of life into the nations of the Earth. May the whole … [Read more...]
We Praise God for the Bounties of Creation
Psalm 65To the Choirmaster, a Psalm of David. A Song.Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. O you who hears prayer, to you shall all flesh come.When iniquities prevail against me, you atone for our transgressions.Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, to dwell in your courts! We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, the holiness of your temple!By awesome deeds you answer us with righteousness, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the … [Read more...]
Cornwall Day of Prayer: A Prayer for Energy Liberation and Development
Dear Father in Heaven,We come to you in prayer and ask you to liberate the nations of this world from poverty.We specifically pray for the strengthening of our existing energy infrastructure and opportunities to utilize new resources like natural gas. We pray that you will guide the nations of the world and its leaders to harness the wealth of natural resources that you have created for the well-being of us and our future generations.Lord, help us develop clean technologies—like the already … [Read more...]
The Problem with Naturalism
Scientific American's report on the awarding of this year's Templeton Prize to Brazilian theoretical physicist and cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser, the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy and professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth College, is fascinating reading.One could wish that many climate scientists, so over-sure of themselves, would read it and take it to heart. SA reported that the Templeton Foundation awarded the prize to Gleiser because "his status as a leading public … [Read more...]
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