ANN: Valuing God’s Creation

Protecting environment rooted in valuing God’s creation, church leaders say (Adv News Network, 22 Apr 2010) A new video on the Adventists About Life YouTube channel offers motivation from a Seventh-day Adventist health expert for combating pollution. The video comes during the week concerned citizens, corporations and governments in 190 countries worldwide observe Earth Day [...]

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 [...]

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.

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?

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. [...]

Spectrum: Intersection TV

Spectrum has an interesting article with video clips — Intersection TV: Green Adventism (Alexander Carpenter, May 13, 2009). We hear it all the time on the news: the earth is in peril, we need to take better care of our planet! So what does this mean for Christians? In “Green Christianity” Intersection’s panelists talk about [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]