Creation Sabbath

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?

Spectrum: Garden Evangelism

Jared Wright tells the story of organic gardening in a recent Spectrum blog post: Environmental stewardship. Interfaith dialogue. Community outreach. Organic gardening. Feeding the Hungry. Each of those undertakings is challening in its own right. But for Amy Lee and the Tulsa First SDA Church, a Hiram Edson-like vision in a field led to an [...]

Warming Up in the EAD

I had the great privilege to meet Corrado Cozzi at the 180 Symposium this week. While talking about his ministry in the Euro-Africa Division, I learned he was working on an article for Accent magazine on the environmental conference he had just sponsored in Romania. The 4th International Student Congress was held in Romania with [...]

Columbia Union Conf. Visitor: Are We Green Yet?

Jared and I usually mention other people’s opinions and writings here at AEA. However, this month it’s reversed. We are quoted in the Columbia Union Conference Visitor September cover story–Are We Green Yet? (And now this blog post referencing a magazine article that talked about this blog is turning green reporting into an eco-pretzel.) I’m [...]

Faith & Environmentalism

Today I came across an interesting post written by Brian McLaren at God’s Politics, a blog hosted by Jim Wallis of Sojourners, describing a booklet published by the Sierra Club about faith and environmentalism–Faith in Action. D#@*$% Environmentalists! (by Brian McLaren, June 27, 2008) “Faith in Action” is a colorful, easy-to-read booklet and after a [...]

Bloggin’ the 28 – The Church

The following article is the twentieth installment in a series of blog posts by several thoughtful Adventist writers, bloggers, pastors, and theologians on the 28 fundamental tenets of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (Readers will note that the installments of this series do not follow the chronological order of the 28 beliefs.) This series of posts [...]