The Beauty of Creation

On Sunday, Kristy and I took advantage of the great weather here in Colorado Springs and went for a little walk. Pulpit Rock is just minutes down the road from us. You don't see it in these pictures, but the top of Pulpit Rock gives you a great view of the Garden of the Gods as well.



Speaking of God's creation, I recently got wind of a Christian environmental group called Restoring Eden. As I was looking through their site, I noticed that they're located in La Center, Washingon, a little town between Longview, where I graduated from high school, and the Vancouver/Portland area, where I got my college degree and served as a youth pastor.

So aside from the nagging sense of homesickness, I was pretty excited about this group bringing a God-infused perspective to environmentalism. Unfortunately, evanglelical Christians have had an embarrassing history of weak theological treatment in regards to our responsibility to be stewards of creation. As Brandon Rhodes points out in his paper, environmentalism has typically been dominated by secular fundamentalists and, according to a report last year in the Economist, is "politically adrift and dreadfully out of touch."

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