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Articles
- Cornwall Stewardship Agenda
(April 17, 2008)
God calls us to steward creation, but presently much environmental advocacy and activism contradict sound theology and sound science. In response to this, a diverse task force representing a wide range of the theological, scientific and economic disciplines has been brought together to craft the Cornwall Stewardship Agenda. This agenda is designed to flesh out the broad principles of the 2000 Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship (endorsed by over 1,500 clergy, religious leaders, and other people of faith), and answer the practical question of what public policy principles religious leaders and policymakers should support in their desire to achieve Biblically balanced stewardship. CA
- Seminary Student’s Climate Change Project is not SBC’s
Reprinted with permission of the Baptist Press*
(March 10, 2008)
The so-called “Southern Baptist” statement is not an initiative of the Southern Baptist Convention, which voiced its views on global warming last summer in a resolution, “On Global Warming”.
“[Southern Baptists] reserve to themselves the right to decide through Convention action what the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy positions are to be,” ERLC President Richard Land said. “[T]he Convention has officially addressed the issues of creation care and environmental stewardship in its 2006 and 2007 Conventions through resolutions adopted by the Convention’s duly elected messengers,” and the 2007 resolution “is as close to an ‘official’ position as the SBC is capable of making, apart from its formal confession of faith, the Baptist Faith and Message.” CA
- Good Stewards, Good Samaritans
By Pastor Jay Dennis (January 29, 2008)
Evangelical skepticism of draconian measures to stop global warming is not a license for conspicuous consumption. But economic growth and prosperity are particularly important for the poor. Put simply, increased wealth means better health care, safer housing, improved food, enhanced education, and a cleaner environment. CA
- Global Warming: Why Evangelicals Should Not Be Alarmed
By E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. (October 1, 2007)
Bible readers shouldn’t be surprised that scientific developments in the last year call into question the theory of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW). In Genesis 8:21-22, God promised Himself never to allow the cycles that sustain human (and other) life on Earth to cease so long as the Earth remains. In Psalm 109:6-9 we read that God “set a boundary” that the sea could not pass over. Fears of CAGW suppose a fragile biosphere and land/ocean/atmosphere system that is inconsistent with these verses and with the Bible’s teaching that a wise Creator designed the Earth to be a resilient, self-regulating system suitable for human habitation. CA
- Evangelical Group Counters Environmental “Collaboration”
Letter to Leaders Refutes Claims of “Urgent Call to Action” and Questions Evangelical Support
(January 29, 2007)
On January 17 a group led by representatives of the Center for Health and the Global Environment and of the National Association of Evangelicals sent “An Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals Unite to Protect Creation” to political and religious leaders and the media. They claimed to speak for a broad consensus of scientists and evangelicals on a wide range of environmental issues. A letter to the same leaders today, however, denies the ‘consensus’ and the claims in the “Urgent Call.” CA
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