The Cornwall Alliance is a coalition of clergy, theologians, religious leaders, scientists, academics, and policy experts committed to bringing a balanced Biblical view of stewardship to the critical issues of environment and development. The Cornwall Alliance fully supports the principles espoused in the Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship, and is seeking to promote those principles in the discussion of various public policy issues including population and poverty, food, energy, water, endangered species, habitat, and other related topics.
“The Waxman-Markey bill’s passage through committee may be a boost to wealthy investors in alternative energy companies, but it is a massive tax increase and a heavy burden to lay on Americans with low and middle incomes.
“It’s a tax on the poor. The poor spend a much higher portion of their income on home energy, transportation, and necessities—like groceries, clothing, and housing costs—than the wealthy. Cap-and-trade will make all of those things more expensive.” CA
"I’ve been fighting for pro-life and pro-family values for the past twenty-five years, and I am excited to continue that work with the Cornwall Alliance. Environmental stewardship and care for the poor are deeply Biblical issues, but secular environmentalism has increasingly set its sights on limiting development and reducing human population.
“Now, at a time when American families are struggling to make ends meet, Washington is considering a host of ill-advised measures that would make prices for energy, food, and other essential needs skyrocket.” CA
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
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
A national coalition of pastors, Christian leaders, and policy makers announced the launch of the “We Get It!” campaign aimed at enlisting one million Christians on a new, historic statement on environment and poverty. The campaign, which has been endorsed by Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Richard Land, U.S. Senator James Inhofe, U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, Tony Perkins, Rev. Dr. James Tonkowich, historian David Barton, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, singer Pat Boone, as well as nearly a hundred pastors and a growing host of national and state organizations, calls on Christians to add their name at www.WeGetIt.org. CA
September 29, 2008 — Green-Collar Jobs--or Con Jobs?
Environmental-union-politico alliances use their clout to promote new energy, economic vision. Will it create jobs, without impacting existing jobs, living standards and economic... ECB
