Church Music: Track 01
If you're familiar with church culture, you will know that people still sing together there. If you're familiar with evangelical church...
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THOUGHTS ABOUT GOD, THE ENVIRONMENT AND WHERE I FIT IN
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My Story
I've never been able to shake a feeling of responsibility for the environment. Growing up in an evangelical church there are times when I feel like I've heard it all when it comes to obligation. But not so long ago things started clicking into place for me. As I continue to wrestle with the source of this heavy obligation, the freedom found in imitating the life of Jesus and the present state of global environmental issues I can't keep these thoughts to myself anymore.
I really hope you find something here. If anything my primary goal is to give a glimmer of hope. Hope for the future, hope for peace and hope that lasts the rest of your life.
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Useful Religion
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep...
Stepping into the Ring
The fight against climate change is a difficult job. No one person is assigned this duty and no one person can be successful. Like never...
Pick up your shoes!
Today, I'm falling into a metaphor that I can't let go of. Because the intersection of the environment, me, and God are never far from my...
Kan ek jou help?
Hey! I have stuff. I have a history that I've experienced, and before that one that I haven't. I have your history too. I have your stuff...
My Sustainable Neighbourhood
I'm working overtime this Earth Day! In fact, I've been doing a lot of overtime for what I'm sharing here. Sustainability is a personal...
Earth Day
Today is earth day 2021. I'm listening when I can to some of the remarks from international leaders convening at U.S. President Biden's...
How far to the start line?
I feel like I’m starting my spiritual journey about half a lifetime behind the start line. The gun has just fired and I can’t even see...
I Took A Little Time
I took a little time, to wander from the way, I’d walked for most my life, a path that people say, Where God could be most found, If I...
Polluting Holiness
Holiness and righteousness are terms used in the English Bible and throughout modern expressions of Christianity that hold a sacred place...
A War for Every Generation (Part II)
In part one of this blog I proposed the present battlefront for all humanity and left off with a highlight of how ambiguous the actual...
Hey Dad
Tonight I watched an episode of BBC's "Our Planet" with my kids. We have this tradition in our house that when I make Cuban Picadillo for...
A War for Every Generation (Part I)
How climate change has become my battlefront. Ever since I was a young boy stories from world war 2 have been fascinating for me. There...
12 years to...
“We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe.” That is the headline that hit the internet not too long ago after the UN panel on...
Making sense of treading lightly, dominion and the anthropocene
In an era where, for the first time, human impacts outweigh natural or non-human processes (the anthropocene) the need to tread with a...
Wasted
I used to think I was normal. I stress about a light on in an empty room. I feel a small twinge of anxiety when I pass a dripping tap. I...
The Table
For me, the table brings everything together. It is the catalyst for all sorts of great things that we could talk about. All the...
Dominion
I have a lot to say on this one word. Dominion. For me it summarizes an immovable concept in God's order of things where people, nature...
Who would you save?
I had a conversation with some friends recently. It was one of those times where everyone at the table was not on the same page but there...
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RESOURCES
Curated reading list connecting the environmental and spiritual
A ROCHA INTERNATIONAL
Conservation and Hope
Possibly the most influential Christian conservation organization on the planet. I have yet to find a message that compares to the one of hope shared by A Rocha and it's supporters. Find a center near you to get involved.
"FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH"
BOUMA-PREDIGER
A christian vision for creation care
I found this book to be the best education I've had so far on creation care. There was a bit of tough slogging at first as the author sets the scene of man's abuse of creation but the comprehensive review of schools of thought is well worth reading from cover to cover.
Start here if you want a quality pros/cons list of theological perspectives on creation care.
LAUDATO SI
POPE FRANCIS
Encyclical on the environment and human ecology
I'll admit that I could spend a lot more time in these words to better understand the strucuture and main take-aways. However, I was very encouraged by this text, the thoughtfulness and interconnected nature of what is shared and the fact that it comes from the desk of the Pope.
Read this bit by bit if you're wondering whether anyone cares and be encouraged by a sincere piece of work that will go down in history.
https://laudatosi.com/watch
THE EVANGELICAL CLIMATE INITIATIVE
Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action
Although a bit dated now (2006) this statement is definitive in nature with an impressive list of signatories. It makes claims on the reality and consequences of climate change and the convictions and need to act by Christians.
Read through this if you're discouraged by a disconnect between creation care and the evangelical church or for a few good scripture references compelling action. https://www.npr.org/documents/2006/feb/evangelical/calltoaction.pdf
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