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.

The Climate Project

Sara Goodwin writes for us today about a recent presentation at Andrews University. She is a freshman biology major at AU, thinking of being an ecologist “when she grows up.” In her free time, she enjoys reading, music, and enjoying the great outdoors. I have added links to her original report. Thanks for sharing, Sara. [...]

Friday Potpourri

1. Global Warming — Somehow I hadn’t heard much about global warming for a stretch, but this week a new headline caught my attention–Ice melting across globe at accelerating rate, NASA says (Emanuella Grinberg, CNN.com, 16 Dec ’08). Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at [...]

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 [...]

In front of the cameras – LLBN

Yesterday, I had the unique opportunity to appear on the Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) as part of a panel discussion on Christianity and Care for the Earth. LLBN, which started as a small-town dream, has grown its viewership steadily and surpassed the audience of SDA TV giant 3ABN. I took part in the taping [...]

Adventist Leaders on Environment, Global Warming

Over at the Spectrum blog, discussion has warmed up over the environment and climate change (once again). Only this time, the president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, Jan Paulsen, is part of the conversation. Paulsen recently made his clearest statement to date on environmental stewardship in the Adventist World. His article, “Freedom to Care” [...]

Bush on Global Warming: It’s real

In an interview (May 13, 2008) with Politico’s chief political correspondent, Michael Allen, President George W. Bush (again) conceded publicly that global warming is real and that has been clearly defined as a problem. At the same time, the President sought to frame the issue in terms of its economical repercussions, saying that “you can’t [...]

Global Warming Reader

(Updated 3/14/08) These three articles that argue against global warming were shared with me recently. Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling (Michael Asher, DailyTech.com, 26 Feb, 2008) Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age (Lorne Gunter, National Post, 25 Feb 2008) NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe (NOAA, 13 Mar 2008) [...]

Environmental Film Festival

I am fortunate to have friends who like to share. Allow me to comment on six films and programs they have shared with me over the past few weeks. In November of 2007, a group of us watched An Inconvenient Truth for our community movie night. After that contentious evening, one person began collecting documentaries [...]

Theological Impossibity of global warming?

Michael Covarrubias, a contributor to the Spectrum Blog, takes issue with an article by Joseph Farah, who says that global warming is theologically impossible because of God’s promise to Noah not to destroy the earth by flood. Farah contends that “It is so presumptuous and haughty of believers and non-believers alike to think man is [...]