"Does Christianity have any workable teachings for an age of global concerns? Were Jesus to return on this 40th anniversary of the moon landing to preach a “Sermon on the Moon,” “Consider the lilies” would become “consider the ecosystem,” and a “house built upon sand” would be, well, just about any house built on any shoreline in the world." (RD, 7.20.09)Clark Strand writes a compelling article about the need for a theology explicitly centered on and guided by global environmental concerns. He provides an interesting commentary on how our worldview has drastically changed since Jesus' time and imagines that Jesus would be addressing the ecological crises that affect our individual and social well-being.
This is certainly an issue to be kept in mind by those of us who engage in theological discourse and are in positions of leadership in our congregations. We should be able to provide a Christ-centered prophetic voice about addressing issues of global environmental concern and reinterpreting Jesus' teachings for our own age.
Read Strand's essay at Religion Dispatches.
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