Growing faith in global warming
For those who care about real ethical engagement between the faith community and the larger culture, the moral and scientific issue of global warming stands as a growing success. That said, we haven’t solved the problem yet and Congress continues to stall. (Help by supporting the Boxer/Sanders bill.) Adding to the climate change on climate change, Yale Divinity School’s journal Reflections — a magazine of theological and ethical inquiry — has devoted the current to God’s Green Earth and the current meanings of Creation, Faith and Crisis.
The lead authors, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, write:
“A many-faceted alliance of religion and ecology along with a new global ethics is awakening around the planet…This is a new moment for the world’s religions, and they have a vital role to play in the emergence of a more comprehensive environmental ethics. The urgency cannot be underestimated. Indeed, the flourishing of the Earth community may depend on it.”
Other contributers include ethicist Larry Rasmussen, evangelical thinker Richard Cizik, activist the Rev. Sally Bingham and 2004 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai.
Oh yeah, and you can order the journal online for free.