by Jim Ball | May 31, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on May 6, 2002. Ball was executive director of the Evangelical Environmental Network at the time of publication. It is reposted today in advance of U.N. World Environment Day on June 5, which has a theme this year of...
by Jim Ball | Jul 5, 2010 | Opinion
I heard my friend Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, speak recently at a conference in Nashville about the connection between the Gulf spill and our need to address global warming. I’ve known Larry since 1994 and have been privileged...
by Jim Ball | Jul 5, 2005 | Opinion
The old football metaphor “three yards and a cloud of dust” aptly describes the slow but crucial progress recently made in the Senate on having the federal government of the United States seriously address global warming. But why is progress at the federal...
by Jim Ball | Mar 4, 2005 | Opinion
Are irrational and dangerous end-of-the-world views of conservative Christians—”the earth is going to be burned up anyway, so why care for it”—behind the environmental policies of our Republican-controlled federal government? Put aside for a moment any...
by Jim Ball | Aug 23, 2004 | Opinion
It still surprises people that evangelical Christians are concerned about environmental issues. As the executive director of the Evangelical Environmental Network, I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen in print that our educational campaign,...
