Once Supporters, Baptists Now Shirk Earth Day

April 22, 2013, will mark the 44th annual celebration of Earth Day. The first Earth Day in 1970 put environmental issues front and center in U.S. society in a very visible way. With more than 20 million Americans participating in this awareness effort, Earth Day...

Earth, People Are More Than Commodities

If I were to preach a sermon on the environment, here are several texts I would use and the sermonic moves I would make. I would begin with Psalm 24:1 that acknowledges, “The earth is the LORD’s and everything in it; the world and all who live in...

Why Your Church Should Observe Earth Day

This coming Sunday is Earth Day, the 43rd annual reminder of our responsibility to care for our planet and its complex components. Not exactly a day in the Christian calendar, like Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saints Day, but, like other more...