Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Environment
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Had a brief look at this today. Looks really interesting. God’s Earth, Our Home || Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church – 5 studies based on faith and the environment through the lens of ‘Ecology and Economy’, a lecture given by Rowan Williams. Produced by Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church (NZ).
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One of the comments last week at the conference was about where the Church’s voice was concerning climate change and environmental issues. In the wake of the international climate change conference here in NZ last month NZ and Pacific Anglican bishops are calling for more government action in this area. See NZ Herald – Bishops…
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Science and Theology News has a collation of articles relating to ecology and religion available in a new mini-portal at Science & Theology News – Ecology. This includes the 2001 article “Ted Peters Reflects on Making the World a Better Place” which is of interest for me at the moment as I work through ideas…
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PBS run an article on evangelicals reexamining their relationship with the environment over at Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . COVER STORY . Evangelicals and the Environment . January 13, 2006 | PBS. Related links: Jim Ball, “The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis”, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith…
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On Thursday I posed a question in my seminar about whether the agrarian imagery we’re familiar with from the biblical material translates into theological resources and theological imagination for engaging with techno-culture. Then today over at Science & Theology News : Pastors in the pasture grow organic congregations there’s an interview with Jeffrey Hawkins of…
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Looks like the local council, which already has a “zero waste” policy, is investigating the possibility of food recycling. Sounds like a good idea, though the implementation might be an issue. See: STUFF : NATIONAL NEWS : ENVIRONMENT – STORY : Food recycling trial to be considered for Waitakere. Recently we switched from weekly plastics/cans…
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Following on from the previous posting on rejecting an ethical-doctrinal dualism, Theodore Jennings Jr’s comments on the ethical project seem apt. In theological ethics, it is generally unwise to approach specific ethical dilemmas in the absence of a wider perspective that will help reveal what may be at stake or even how a particular issue…
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The print edition of Reality Magazine may now be defunct but some articles from the last issue have been put online, including an interesting article on God, nature and Christian engagement with the environment. See: Reality. Issue 69: Springs of Living Water, by Nicola Hoggard Creegan, In Christianity today one of our problems is that…
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From Jesus Creed: Emergent Reaction the second point leapt out at me. Second, and because what we experience in England or Australia or Canada or the USA differs we need to be careful in generalizing, but still here it is: second, what they see in current Evangelical churches is too much Bible study without changed…
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Picked up a flyer yesterday for Creation, Crisis and Conservation : A Christian response to a suffering planet, a conference here in Auckland in two weeks time (18-20 Feb). I probably won’t be able to go to it but here’s the link if you want to find out more. www.creationcare.org.nz The web site isn’t great…