When I began reading Johnny Wei-Bing Lin’s The Nature of Environmental Stewardship: Understanding Creation Care Solutions to Environmental Problems nearly a year ago, I recognized two things about it almost immediately.

First, it was eminently readable—clear, simple, warm, a lot like being involved in a conversation with a dear and longtime friend.

Second, it was a work of extraordinary scholarship—characterized by not superficial but deep familiarity with the competing ideas of a wide variety of movers and thinkers, careful use of primary sources, and unfailingly fair judgment.

Very soon, as I devoured the book far more rapidly than I normally do, I recognized a three more things:

• Johnny Wei-Bing Lin was scrupulously fair in how he represented, critiqued, defended, and refined competing ideas of environmental stewardship among evangelicals of many persuasions, including those of the Cornwall Alliance and others with whom we disagree;
• he was astonishingly gracious and humble despite his obvious brilliance;
• and his book was something I hoped everyone connected with the Cornwall Alliance—scholars in our network, our thousands of donors, and all of the public who read our writings or view our videos—would read.

Of all the many books and videos we’ve offered through the years, Johnny Lin’s The Nature of Environmental Stewardship has the greatest, almost miraculous, potential to bring instruction, correction, clarity, and charity to environmental debates among evangelicals and other Christians in America and around the world.

After reading The Nature of Environmental Stewardship, I struck up a correspondence with Johnny, and I have found him as gracious, intelligent, and challenging one-with-one as in his book.

Johnny’s an unusual scholar. Not many people with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, M.S. in Civil Engineering, and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences are clear, artful, scintillating writers. Johnny is. Not many are also fine scholars in theology and philosophy as well. Johnny is, and he consistently integrates his Biblical worldview and ethics with his outstanding scientific understanding. Not many are also captivating storytellers. Johnny is. And, frankly, Johnny’s also simply one of the most friendly, gracious Christians I’ve ever known, whose heart for the health and strength and unity of Christ’s churches is exemplary.

For all those reasons and more, it’s impossible for me to overstate how strongly I hope you’ll take advantage of this offer to receive Johnny Wei-Bing Lin’s The Nature of Environmental Stewardshipabsolutely FREE as our way of saying “Thank you!” for a donation of any size received by the end of this month. You can make your 100% tax-deductible donation at our secure online website, or by mailing your check to Cornwall Alliance, 3712 Ringgold Rd., Chattanooga, TN 37412. Whichever you do, just mention Promo Code 1705 and request The Nature of Environmental Stewardship, and we’ll send it to you, free of charge.