The Greening of Christianity
May 11th, 2009 | By Skye Jethani | Category: Church, Culture, Features, PoliticsIt’s not easy being green…especially if you’re an evangelical.
Richard Cizik was ousted from the leadership of the National Association of Evangelicals for his vocal support of environmental efforts, what many Christians call “creation care.” Now Cizik finds himself a very popular figure being invited to many conferences and speaking to the younger generation of Christians who take environmental issues like global warming very seriously.
But does Cizik’s departure from the NAE represent the failure or the future of evangelicalism?
There is a battle going on to define 21st century Christianity in North America. Will it continue to be a block whose moral agenda is limited to issued related to sexual/reproductive ethics: abortion, same-sex marriage, and the preservation fo the Western nuclear family? Or will evangelicals embrace a…
