Category: Theology
St. Augustine on Climate Change, 1600 Years Ago
Katharine Hayoe, the well-recognized climate scientist and Christian evangelical, recently posted on social media the below remarkable quote from St. Augustine of Hippo. Augustine was writing in The Literal Meaning of Genesis. It is worth remembering […]
Protecting Future Generations: The Environment/Abortion Dilemma
Shortly after President Trump announced that the United States would pull out of the Paris Agreement, I ran across the following Facebook post: I’m not certain how many yet to be born children of the […]
The Irony of Southern Evangelical Rejection of Climate Science: “Faith Hijacked by Politics”
I am from the “South”: the southern United States. The South is home to arguably the most robust concentration of biological natural resources in the U.S.—from forests to wetlands to extremely high levels of biodiversity. […]
Beyond Biblical Stewardship: The Utilitarian Conservative Case for Biodiversity Protection
What if I told you that a proposed industrial development that would employ 5,000 workers may not proceed because it would destroy habitat of a scorpion species? Would you argue that the development and the […]
The Mistake of Linking Climate Change and Evolution When Advocating for Science
It is often said that the general public is guilty of science denial—that is, rejecting scientific facts ranging “from evolution to climate change…” If scientists are unable to convince the general public that evolution is a […]
The Rural Environment
In simple terms, this project arose out of a desire to bridge a gap in discourse between stereotypical “environmentalists” and stereotypical “rural conservatives”—a gap that is widening. I say “stereotypical” because these two categories are not mutually […]
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