In a new initiative launched last week, a group of conservative Christian organizations that deny the role of human activity in global warming, call for helping the poor by advocating against environmental regulation. This coalition takes direct aim at the "creation care" movement -- a different coalition of evangelicals who advocate for environmental protection.
Advertising-driven overconsumption is devastating the global environment, says the Rev. Fletcher Harper, executive director of GreenFaith, a Trinity Transformational Fellow.
The Rev. George Clifford, a former Navy chaplain argues: Torture involves acts that should lie beyond the bounds of acceptable morality – always. .... Not only is torture antithetical to Christian principles and incompatible with Christian virtue, torture is also ineffective. In other words, the evil of torture very rarely if ever results in a greater good.
Ordinary Time [the Seasons after Epiphany and Pentecost] is the time of the Church, of the daily life of every Christian community, and of each one of us. It is the time not of a brief effort during which one hurries or even runs in order to progress on the way, but the time when one goes at a measured pace in order to cover a long distance.
