Category: The New Creation Stewardship: Humanist and Christian Perspectives

As things so often do, it began with Genesis. God commanded the first man and woman to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth” (Gen. …

Dear Pastor, what I fear most is the pervasive combination of religious and secular ideology of a kind that sees little or no harm in the destruction of the Creation. The following speech might be given by the visionary who ranks biodiversity of little account and sees humanity ascending profitably away from and not to …

Global ecology is a notable action item on the agenda of Reformed Christianity, the form of Protestant Christianity traditionally most committed t o a world-affirming faith. To understand this Reformed conception of global ecology, however, we must situate it in the context of the Christian worldview, best summarized for our present purposes as the creation-sin-redemption …

The disasters of the past decade serve notice that our present century will be remembered—should there be anyone left to remember it—as the century in which humans (our species!) confronted the crises of ecological burnout and proliferating weapons of mass destruction. How we handle the crises will determine the future of life on Earth. My …