God’s intentions for Earth

16Jan09

Typically each weekday morning at 8:30, Bobby J (aka Geek Orthodox and the Practicing Non-Catholic) leads us in morning prayers of the four-week psalter of the Liturgy of Divine Hours. Like a microcosm of the booths in a monastic cathedral that face each other, we arrange two facing rows of chairs. Each side [...]

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Tags: environment, disciples fellowship, Creation, Earth, creation theology, Wall-E, Isaiah, Liturgy of Divine Hours

a Bible in one hand, and this one in the other

14Jan09

Back in August of ‘08, at a cohort gathering with Brian McLaren, Brian presented a somewhat lofty idea that could address globalized corporate evils like forced labor, unfair trade, exploitation of natural resources, and animal abuse. Brian mentioned the idea of a system that, like nutrition labels, could eventually become a government-mandated label placed [...]

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Tags: consumerism, corporate evil, environment, ethics, human rights, social justice

Christianity and the Survival of Creation

07Nov08

The ethic of conservation is the explicit abnegation of man’s dominion over the Earth. The lower species are here for our use. God said so: Go forth, be fruitful, multiply, and rape the planet — it’s yours. That’s our job: drilling, mining and stripping. Sweaters are the anti-Biblical view. Big gas-guzzling cars with phones and [...]

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Tags: Ann Coulter, conservationism, consumerism, Creation, environment, environmentalism, Wendell Berry