Just and Proper Use: Issues in Environmental Stewardship
Author: Judy Scherff. Episcopalians pray for "the just and proper use" of God's creation. While they pray, the rain forests are being eradicated, more and more animal species become extinct, the burning of fossil fuels goes unchecked and the impoverished bear the brunt of pollution and environmental decay. These are properly the issues of the church, author Judy Scherff insists in this booklet, and to respond to the needs of the earth is to fulfill our very baptismal vows. At the root of the environmental crisis is greed, and the undoing of our greed is always the hope of every Christian -- and perhaps the only hope for the planet.
Episcopalians pray for "the just and proper use" of God's creation. While they pray, the rain forests are being eradicated, more and more animal species become extinct, the burning of fossil fuels goes unchecked and the impoverished bear the brunt of pollution and environmental decay. How will we rearrange our lives, our economies, and our social orders to better rely upon and sustain God's creation?
These are properly the issues of the church, author Judy Scherff insists in this booklet, and to respond to the needs of the earth is to fulfill our very baptismal vows. At the root of the environmental crisis is greed, and the undoing of our greed is always the hope of every Christian -- and perhaps the only hope for the planet.
