180 South

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

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]

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 [...]

Vibrant Life: Green Blog

Last week I found out an old friend of mine writes a green blog for Vibrant Life magazine. (Photo from the VL website) She also recently wrote a piece for Adventist Activism on community.

SCUPE: Eco-Justice Course

SCUPE (Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education) is offering a eco-justice class in Chicago next month (October 2009). SCUPE S-H 307: Eco-Justice: A Vision for a Sustainable City The course will develop a holistic vision for a sustainable city as an outworking of the concept of shalom, a just peace.  The course will evaluate the [...]

No Impact Experiment

If you choose to do this 1-week experiment, tell us all about it. And, yes, parts of the video are super cheesy. And check out the documentary trailer.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Books for Ordinary Radicals

Over at \books for ordinary radicals\, we’re reading Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice. The current chapters are on the environment, so I thought I’d give them a shout-out here. This week: Rereading Genesis (Ellen Bernstein) Jewish Textual Practice and Sustainable Culture (Natan Margalit) Coming next week: Wonder and Restraint: A Rabbinical Call to [...]