180 South

Clearly, the team has been neglecting the blog. Lo siento. Here’s a review I wrote of a great film — 180 South.

Spectrum: Open Letter to the Environment

An Open Letter to the Environment (Sigve Tonstad, Spectrum, 25 Apr 2010) Dear environment, You are losing. [full article]

Adv Review: Interview with Sigve Tonstad

What Are We Really Doing to God’s Creatures? (Sandra Blackmer, Adv Review) Christians in North America who are concerned about responsible stewardship of the earth note that Adventists appear to be relative latecomers to the conversation. Awareness, though, is growing within the church of the escalating problem of bacteria resistance to antibiotics because of their [...]

Spectrum: Lent Series + Bonus

These 2 articles in Spectrum’s Lent series may be of interest: Vegetarianism Environmentalism Full Series Bonus: Celtic Christian Theology – The Goodness of Creation

Shabbat Shalom — Tending the Earth Together

Shabbath Shalom (Vol. 56, No. 2, 2009) dedicated an entire issues to creation care — “Tending the Earth Together.” Articles include: An Ecological Ideal (Editorial) Interviews with Lewis Regenstein, Jo Ann Davidson & Peter Sinclair Fun Facts on Ecology (Jo Ann Davidson) Hebrew Concept of the World (Jacques B. Doukhan) Ecology & Ecotherapy in Revelation [...]

ANN: Jan Paulsen

Adventist leaders comment on Copenhagen climate summit: Caring for environment is “Christian issue,” president says (Victor Hulbert, ANN, 14 Dec. 2009) Should Christians be concerned about caring for the environment? The president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Jan Paulsen, says “yes,” in a video released on YouTube, coinciding with the Copenhagen Summit.

Spectrum: Jan Paulsen on Creation Care

Spectrum recently highlighted a new film by Jan Paulsen that considers care of God’s created world–Jan Paulsen on Caring for Creation (Alexander Carpenter, 2 Dec. 2009). As always, engaging conversation followed. Click here to view the video.

Adv Today: A Theology of Tree-Hugging

A Theology of Tree-Hugging (Nathan Brown, Adventist Today Blog, 3 Dec. 2009). Excerpt: How we live in comparative affluence impacts directly and indirectly upon the lives of millions of others and upon the limited resources of our world. As Christian stewards, we should be using the many choices in our lives, our consumer power and [...]

Eco Baptism in Wales

I attended several outdoor baptisms growing up in Oregon (one was my own). It never crossed my mind that this was newsworthy, but that was before climate change was a household term. Reporting from Wales (Jessica Flynn, WalesOnline.co.uk, 11 July ’09): TEENAGER Anna Surridge is so passionate about climate change she organised her own eco-baptism. [...]

God is…

I recently read an enviro article by James Cress in Ministry – God is Great; God is Green (Nov 2008). These quotes stood out to me: At this time when scientists and political leaders (many of them secularists) are concerned about the environment, ought not creationists be even more concerned and involved? Even though I [...]