Today is Creation Sabbath for Adventists around the world.
Here is the website set-up for today’s events–Creation Sabbath.
And here is a prayer by Alexander Carpenter (Spectrum). What do you think?
What did you and your church do to celebrate Creation Sabbath?
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Today Matthew Sleeth spoke at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta. Drew Dyck of Christianity Today reports this snippet about Sabbath:
Matthew sees a connection between our conception of time and our treatment of God’s earth. He didn’t mince words.
“How many of you take a Sabbath?” he asked the room of Christian leaders.
Not a single hand went up.
“You might as well just take the Ten Commandments and rip them out of your Bible,” he said.
Then he took a Bible and actually ripped them out!
Read the full report here.
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Nature makes us nicer, according to new study (Trystan L. Bass, Yahoo! Green, 6 Oct 2009)
Not only can a walk in the park be relaxing, looking at greenery can actually improve your relationships and make you more generous. That’s what a University of Rochester research team discovered… [full article]
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Three links for your Monday evening:
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SCUPE (Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education) is offering a eco-justice class in Chicago next month (October 2009).
SCUPE S-H 307: Eco-Justice: A Vision for a Sustainable City
The course will develop a holistic vision for a sustainable city as an outworking of the concept of shalom, a just peace. The course will evaluate the three components of sustainable community development: the three E’s of economics, environment and equity (or social justice). Participants will xplore the course topic via readings, panel discussions and site visits. Students will have the option of exploring key issues such as energy policy, food production, environ-mental justice and pollution and how these challenges relate to the central course themes. Central to the course is the question, “What does it mean to be a sustainable urban community?”
Links: Eco-Justice Syllabus & GTUS Courses.
Previously, we highlighted an eco-theology course at AMBS.
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For those who desire to study past SDA writings, you can find a significant list at Adventist Women & the Earth–Adventist Writings on Ecology. The most recent date is 2003.
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Lakeview church family, Thank you for inviting me to come spend Sabbath with you. I had a really great time. Here are the resources I said I would post, and thank you for the ideas and information you shared with me. Grace and peace, Jeff
And the clip I showed was from The Ordinary Radicals (chapter 7).
Here’s the script–God_is_Green. Deviations were significant in places. And here’s Restoring Eden’s sticker that’s mentioned in the presentation.
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If you choose to do this 1-week experiment, tell us all about it. And, yes, parts of the video are super cheesy.
And check out the documentary trailer.
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We don’t post “green news” very often (you can subscribe to Grist or others for that), but this one in Utne caught my attention:
Detroit: Farming Paradise? (Danielle Maestretti, Utne, 28 Aug 2009)
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Lakeview SDA Church is ending a week of creative evangelism with a talk on the connection between spirituality and the environment.
Time: 7:00 pm
Date: September 18, 2009
Location: 2318 W Roscoe St, Chicago, IL 60618
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