I posted about All Saints’ Green Festival on April 6th a couple days ago and today this article was posted on azcentral.com.
Church leaders and their congregations are increasingly becoming God’s green soldiers.
And the Easter season is an appropriate time for churches to marry spirituality and ecology.
“There is something inside us that responds to the Earth coming alive this time of year,” said Doug Bland, chairman of the Earth Care Commission with the Arizona Ecumenical Council. “It’s also a time when we face our own failings and sins. And as we look around us, we can see our role in the destruction of the planet.”
Parishioners are being asked to embrace environmentalism in a variety of ways. Members of Community Christian Church in Tempe are encouraged to go outside and reflect on Scripture surrounded by nature. Churches in Arizona’s Episcopal Diocese have formed green teams that conduct energy audits of individual churches. At First United Methodist Church in Tempe, the most recent adult Bible-study topic was “Taking Care of God’s Earth.”
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March 25th, 2008 at 6:59 am
This is great! Wasn’t there even a recent announcement from the heads of the Southern Baptist Church saying they were wrong and climate change is something that needs to be addressed?
Thank goodness! What a great forum to spur people to change their ways and think more positively about taking care of the Earth.