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 [...]

Sleeth on Sabbath — Catalyst Conference ’09

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 [...]

Adv Review: Into the Garden

Ken Flemmer of ADRA wrote a good article on gardening for the Adventist Review — Into the Garden (May 14, 2009). I am an avid gardener, and have been thinking about gardening as a great coping mechanism for many stressed families. But how effective will a garden strategy be if the growing skills and cooking [...]

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 [...]

Interview: Pastor Matt Vincent — Zipcar User

Pastor Matt Vincent and I were talking recently during a church board meeting in Chicago, and our conversation turned to Zipcar. Matt is a member, and he’d used Zipcar to get across Chicago for the meeting that night. Pastor Jose Bourget confirmed that public transportation between Matt’s place and the church is poor compared to [...]

AU Receives Green Grant

Andrews Univesity recieved a $1,815 grant to improve its recycling efforts. Following are excerpts from “Andrews Receives Recycling Grant,” which was published in the January 21-27, 2009 issue of The Student Movement, the Andrews University weekly newspaper (no author listed; links added by AFE): Dec. 18, 2008 The Berrien County Resource Recovery Office notified the [...]

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff chronicles the journey of our stuff – our everyday purchases – from extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and finally, to disposal.  It answers some of the questions of how we got to the point we are now as a society. When I first saw this about a year ago, the biggest revelation [...]

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 [...]

A Walk on the Wild Side(walk)

Worldwide, there were some 200 million automobiles in 1970; by 1990 the number had grown to 500 million. If current population and buying trends continue, it is estimated that by 2030 there could be more than 1 trillion cars rumbling down our highways and byways (Hypertextbook.com). While the auto industry provides thousands of jobs for [...]

Serve God, Save the Planet

I had heard Dr. Matthew Sleeth preach. I’d read some of his interviews. I had scanned his website. I had researched the organization he now works for–A Rocha. But I hadn’t actually read his book, Serve God, Save the Planet, cover-to-cover until a few weeks ago. You can read all about the book, the man, [...]