Go to a Green for All event — and take a picture 26 September, 2008
Posted by Zack in climate change, creation care, green for all.add a comment
This weekend, there’s a great way to save the environment & the economy at the same time: Go to Green for All’s site greenjobsnow.com, sign up for an event in your town this weekend, go to it, take a picture, and send it in so that you’re event is counted.
This is a great action that has been picked up by so many groups this week. I hope the Creation Care set represents!
First Catalyst Conference Report 3 October, 2007
Posted by Zack in Catalyst conference, creation care, environment, Georgia, poverty, racial reconciliation, slavery.3 comments
It’s just those Bible-Fundamentalist, Anti-Enlightenment, Creationist, Republican-voting Christian Neanderthals again…
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Except that they’re wrestling with what Jesus meant when he said they would find Him among the poorest of the poor…And it’s leading them to think about turning the economy upside down…As they struggle desperately to find ways to rescue everyone in poverty. I wanted to do this blog to dispel some of the shallow stereotypes about evangelicals—but at this conference I find myself having to catch my breath over and over, because I didn’t expect it to be THIS different.
That message of turning your whole life over to the poor—and organizing your church to do the same–is almost the dominant theme at Catalyst this year. Chris Seay was just one person to deliver that message on this first day of the conference in front of about 1,000 people (there seem to be about a few thousand here today, attending different concurrent sessions). You can catch the essence of his talk in this video of his. PLEASE check it out, just a few minutes long:
Today has been packed solid. Between the two of us we’ve seen talks on: racial reconciliation, the modern abolitionist movement, how hip hop culture can be a positive social change agent, creation care (by a pastor of a very Republican & conservative charismatic church), radical person-to-person anti-poverty work and a Las Vegas church that welcomes everyone—including strippers, gamblers and drug addicts—in the spirit of “uncensored grace.”And there’s another full session tonight. So we might not be able to write up as much as we wanted to each day.They’re making available full sets of CDs of every session on Friday. So I HOPE to be ale to put together some sort of audio montage that can give our readers a feel for what all’s going on here.
Evangelicals and the environment 8 August, 2007
Posted by Zack in creation care, Joel C Hunter, Northland Church, What are the Christians up to?.add a comment
Interesting story today in the Washington Post about pastor Joel C Hunter of the Northland (Mega)Church in Longwood, FL. This is the guy who was appointed to lead the Christian Coalition and then resigned when he realized he was going to be blocked from expanding the group’s horizon beyond abortion, stem cells and gay marriage.
Hunter is a great example of an extremely conservative Evangelical Christian leader who is nevertheless taking seriously progressive stands on immigration, health care, poverty, war and the environment. If you’re interested in taking a closer look at this movement of “revolutionary evangelicals,” check out the Washington Post article and the Joel Hunter links below.
- Joel C Hunter Bio
- Daily blog on religion and politics (with rockin’ theme music!)
- Most recent book: Right Wing, Wrong Bird
- NYTimes version of the Christian Coalition story
- Hunter is one of the leaders of the Creation Care movement. (CSMonitor Oped.)
