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- ISA Announces Launch of Cornwall Network at Senate Luncheon
(April 19, 2006)
Before a packed room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance hosted a Capitol Hill luncheon on “Pulpits, Pews and Environmental Policy: How the Cornwall Declaration is helping define the mandate of Biblical stewardship.” The ISA also announced the launch of the Cornwall Network, a nationwide network of churches which are partnering on biblical stewardship and environmental issues. CA
- ISA announces launch of Cornwall Network at Senate luncheon - Beisner
(April 19, 2006)
Good afternoon. I’m Calvin Beisner, associate professor of social ethics at Knox Theological Seminary and a founder and spokesman of the Interfaith Stewardship Alliance. I want to thank the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Democracy and the Institute on Religion and Democracy, whose new president, Jim Tonkowich, will be one of our speakers today, for co-sponsoring this briefing. To all of you, welcome, and thank you for coming. We are excited today to launch what we are calling the “Cornwall Network” of religious congregations committed to the understanding and implementation of… CA
- ISA announces launch of Cornwall Network at Senate luncheon - Tonkowich
(April 19, 2006)
It’s hard to believe that it’s thirty years ago, but thirty years ago—almost to the date—I was with a group of college friends hiking Mount Washington from the west. We went up the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail to Lake of the Clouds. It was a bright sunny day and relatively warm for April in New Hampshire. The spring melt was pouring down the ravine in wonderful eddies and waterfalls, and there was still plenty of snow above timberline for some snow climbing to the summit. What a day. In fact we enjoyed it so much… CA
- Climate of Fear
Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence
By Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. (April 12, 2006)
How can a barely discernible, one-degree increase in the recorded global mean temperature since the late 19th century possibly gain public acceptance as the source of recent weather catastrophes? And how can it translate into unlikely claims about future catastrophes? CA
- Climate Change in a Nutshell
Scientific, moral and theological implications of climate policy
(February 28, 2006)
Few issues in recent years have fueled public debate as has global warming.... Global warming certainly involves fierce debates over how to interpret complicated and incomplete scientific data, and whether computer models can competently analyze complex weather and climate systems and cycles that still are not well understood. But it also features equally fulsome discussions about energy costs and the protocol’s many significant implications for nations, families and industries.
Today, another dynamic is also beginning to receive increasing attention. It is the emerging assessment of the moral and religious implications of climate change policy. CA
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