Environmentalism... a Gospel implication?

Photo by Petr Kratochvil

"Some Christians want to dismiss the environment 

as a lesser issue 

compared with the weightiness of the Gospel. 

But if the Gospel is the story of how 

the life, death and resurrection of Christ 

redeems and renews believers 

and all creation with them, 

then the proper care of the earth 

becomes a Gospel implication."

-- Jason Todd

Where Christians Get Environmentalism Wrong

A huge warehouse of stuff ... or is it?

"Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience."

- Rowan Williams

A broader concern

"I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ
can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern
for the well-being of other human beings
to the broader concern for the well-being
of the birds in our backyards,
the fish in our rivers,
and every living creature on the face of the earth."

-- John Wesley (1701-91)