Posted on 09/28/2014 5:07:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Climate change captured the nation’s attention over the past week as an estimated 400,000 people marched through the streets of New York City to raise a collective voice of alarm about the effects of a warming planet.
Just days before the march, the issue got a spotlight in Flagstaff thanks to a visit from Katharine Hayhoe, an evangelical Christian and climate scientist who is becoming one of the rising stars in the climate change conversation. Her message about the harmony between faith and climate change earned her a spot on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2014 and an appearance on the Showtime series "Years of Living Dangerously."
In a presentation to a packed auditorium in Northern Arizona University's Cline Library last Wednesday, Hayhoe outlined the science supporting human-caused climate change and the devastating impacts it is wreaking on the planet.
Her message about the solidness of the science, the urgency of the problem and the overlap between faith and climate change may have been news to some, but to lots of others, she was preaching to the choir. Many religious organizations around Flagstaff see the need to take action on climate change as a religious imperative.
Several local pastors and one rabbi pointed to the need to take action to halt climate change as a logical extension of Bible verses that call on humans to be stewards of Earth.
“Page one of the Bible says creation is good and we're supposed to take care of creation,” said Nina Perlmutter, a part-time rabbi at Flagstaff’s Heichal Baoranim Synagogue. “We are partners with the divine in caring for the Earth.”
Man’s role as caretaker is one that also resonates with Kenneth McIntosh, the pastor of the First Congregational Church of Flagstaff.
“Caring for the planet that God created is a critical part of our faith,” McIntosh said. “Respecting Earth and respecting God are entirely intertwined.”
McIntosh participates in an organized preach-off for climate change each Valentine’s Day Sunday and makes environmental stewardship a regular part of his preaching message.The First Congregational Church of Flagstaff also is a member of Arizona Interfaith Power and Light, a coalition of religious organizations around the state working on issues related to sustainability. The coalition informs members about environmental issues and encourages both individual conservation and political action.
The members of Northern Arizona University's Lutheran Campus Ministry are addressing climate change beyond the walls of worship as well.
The ministry is organizing a two-day series of conversations in April that will address climate change and its effects on vulnerable populations. The idea is to have an “interfaith conversation about what we can do about this,” said Fritz Lampe, pastor of the ministry.
The ties between climate change and social justice have been the driving factor for other religious organizations to get involved in the issue. Global climate change disproportionately affects individuals and nations that are least responsible, the most vulnerable and the most economically disadvantaged, said Sarah King, who chairs the earthcare commission of the Arizona Ecumenical Council, a Christian organization that addresses social justice issues.
“We need to reach out and protect those who are less fortunate than us,” she said.
But climate change isn’t an area of focus at all religious services across town. Climate change isn’t something that is talked about from the pulpit at North Point Fellowship, for example. The issue has become unnecessarily politicized and all Christians don’t think the same when it comes to responding to a warming planet, said Kalib Wilkinson, the church’s counseling pastor. But if the conversation instead focused on reducing pollution instead of fighting climate change, that should be a cause that everyone could rally around, Wilkinson said.
“Taking care of the Earth and being close to the Earth is something we've lost as a society,” he said. “Loving one another isn’t about using up this Earth and (saying) best of luck to the future generations -- that's not loving.”
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..................
We DO recognize this is ALL A LIE, don’t we?
It seems like more of the JesusChristTheCommie stuff we heard so much back in the ‘60s.
I guess they never quit.
Some years back, a Pope said we needed to consider GW and try to keep the planet healthy. When ever anyone related to any religion talks such nonsense, I wonder if they are even aware of the Bible and the fact that God has already spoken about where we are going. Global Warming will not interfere with God’s Plan and we will not destroy the Earth and thwart Him.
400,000? Yeah sure. Maybe 3000 Union...
It’s not the dogma, it’s the MONEY. Who’s paying this phony?
“Solidness” Well, that does it for me.
I wonder what this woman thinks about Genesis wherein Man is given Nature to use
Climate Change is a Faith. It is believed in by many but not by the purveyors. Their Faith is in Power.
As many do, she cherry picks verses to suit her ideology.
God, the level of stupidity....
She is a useful idiot and certainly no Christian. The leftist have successfully infiltrated and taken over many Christian denominations, Catholic, Episcopalian, Presbyterian churches to name a few. These branches of Christianity (World Council of Churches) are all left wing organizations. They have been corrupted to the core, the leadership bought and sold by communist agitators. Instead of drinking the blood of Christ, they have drunk the Cool-Aid of Global Warming propaganda.
faith..and global climate hooey
the JONESTOWN of the 21st Century
Churches carrying the water for the Democrat Party is nothing new, baptizing the Liberal agenda, as it were.Exhibit A: Black churches letting Democrat candidates “preach” during every election cycle.
Somehow, the IRS is fine with that, while conservative pastors are monitored to make sure the mythical “wall between church and state” is not breached.
Hayhoe, Hayhoe, its off to work we go ...
The Church of Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Disruption:
Where worshipers feel good about leaving vast amounts of trash for others to pick up and dispose;
Where worshipers feel good about feeling good about themselves;
Where worshipers feel good about themselves for believing that science can be ‘settled’;
Where worshipers feel good about accepting large ‘donations’ of cash from taxpayers;
Where worshipers feel good about persecuting, prosecuting, and imprisoning ‘climate deniers’ ...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
In my experience, with a few exceptions, the less people understand the actual science, the more noise they make about the dangers of global warming. Witness Al Gore and this bimbo.
Watch Joe Bastardi’s Saturday Summary and it will tell you that AGW is total Bull Merd...
These people are weird. They don’t just love the earth, they’re IN love with it.
I find it amazing that the same week a liberal President announces air-strikes in Iraq & Syria there are 400K out in the streets of NYC protesting...climate change.
What a crock!
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