What Does Christmas Have to Do with Ecology?

Nearly fifty years ago, historian Lynn White, Jr., published in Science magazine an article that soon became famous, was reproduced hundreds of times in anthologies and course readings, and is still in use in college courses on environmental ethics, religion, and policy. In “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” White claimed, “By destroying pagan

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Does Jesus Make a Difference for the Sick and Dying?

With Thanksgiving just past and Christmas approaching, it’s fitting that we thank God for some of the blessings not only Christians but also non-Christians enjoy because of Jesus Christ’s coming. Two of them are tightly tied together. Most people today—Christian or not—admire mercy, compassion, and pity, and for that reason most people—again, Christian or not—live

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Website Visitor Accuses Us of Lies and Propaganda; We Respond

Recently a visitor to our website wrote us:  Please show me the hard science behind your ‘beliefs’. I just want you to know that as a Christian AND environmentalist, I am appalled at the lies you are propagating. Please help me understand your motivation. Is anyone on your staff a trained scientist? And please do

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Fruitful Dominion: Time for a New Environmental Ethic?

 Responsible stewardship can bring prosperity to all of the earth’s inhabitants Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis

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