by John Weaver | Jan 5, 2010 | Opinion
While we celebrated Christmas in our churches, those returning from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen might rightly conclude that self is king, mammon is god, and nature weeps. There was a failure to agree on a legally binding deal to reduce...
by Mark Woods | Dec 15, 2009 | Opinion
Democracy, Sir Winston Churchill is said to have remarked, is the worst form of government, except for all the others. The American statesman Benjamin Franklin is often wrongly credited with the saying, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have...
by Trey Lyon | Dec 11, 2009 | Opinion
It’s hard to say the words climate change without evoking passionate feelings. Recently I slid down the slippery slope of attempting to engage a global-warming “skeptic” – online – by trying to fight science with science. The resulting comments (all...
by Robert Parham | Dec 9, 2009 | Opinion
Before the United Nation’s climate change talks started on Dec. 7 in Copenhagen, Denmark, evangelical Christians had confessed five months earlier in Kenya their sin for failing to care for God’s environment. “We confess that we have sinned. We...
by Baptist Times Staff | Nov 13, 2009 | News
Church leaders have urged European politicians to make firm commitments on climate change policy. Speaking before a significant European Union summit meeting last week, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Methodist Church and the United Reformed Church called on...
