I am happy to see these local conversations taking place. Here is the Tampa Bay Times: On the fifth anniversary of an historic papal document about the environment and as the coronavirus continues to imperil the world, a panel of Catholic […]
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Evangelicals Call for Renewable Energy in Indiana
21,000 evangelicals that is. Learn more from Rebecca Thiele’s piece at WFYI (Indianapolis). A taste: A group of evangelicals in Indiana wants the state to expand wind and solar energy. The Evangelical Environmental Network delivered more than 21,000 signatures to Gov. Eric […]
Pennsylvania’s Pro-Life Evangelicals Call for Clean Air in the Commonwealth
Rev. Mitchell Hescox is the CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network. He lives in New Freedom, Pennsylvania. In his recent piece at The York Daily Record, Hescox argues that pro-life evangelicals should be concerned about the bad air emanating from fracking […]
Evangelical Environmentalists Chide Scott Pruitt for Failing to Live-Up to His Pro-Life Commitments
As we noted last week, Scott Pruitt, the recently resigned director of the Environmental Protection Agency, is an evangelical Christian. But it is worth noting that not all evangelicals agree with Pruitt on the best way to deal with environmental […]
Jack Wyrtzen: Evangelical Environmentalist
Who is Jack Wyrtzen? The founder of Word of Life was a household name in post-war evangelical and fundamentalism. He may have also been an evangelical environmentalist. Here is Fred Clark, aka Slacktivist: Jack Wyrtzen was an old-school evangelist — […]
Is Climate Change a Pro-Life Issue?
Yes. Over at The Christian Science Monitor, Ben Rosen writes about the Evangelical Environmental Network‘s attempt to convince evangelicals that climate change is a “pro-life” issue. The argument goes something like this: “if you value life from its conception, you […]