Environmentalism

A Christian Response to Earth Day

April 22, 2010April 22, 2010

I wrote and posted this last year and thought it was worth repeating. Today is Earth Day. But, what does that mean for Christians? The responses by evangelicals vary widely. From bashing Earth Day by celebrating the consumption of fossil fuels, rebutting global warming claims, and (my personal favorite, though I doubt the guy was serious) …

The Environment, The SBC, and The Need for Holistic Evangelism

February 11, 2010

In 1972 Henlee H. Barnette was a professor at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Barnette was also an avid opponent of biblical inerrancy and, it appears, of the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention. However, in that year, Barnette released, The Church and The Ecological Crisis, as, by his own admission, “an attempt to …