To strive to safeguard the integrity of creation, and sustain and renew the life of the earth.
Anglican Communion 5th Mark of Mission
Daily Reflections on Care of Creation for Lent 2021
Provided through the blog Sustainable Ways by the Rev. Jonathan Hallewell, incumbent in the Parish of Renforth, and sustainability advocate. Reflections are also available through Facebook.
Articles
- There is No Vaccine for the Environmenal Peril We Face - the Rev. Jonathan Hallewell (addressing call #6 from the Arusha Call to Discipleship)
- God Intended Us to Have Green Fingers - the Rev. Jonathan Hallewell
- The Carbon Footprint of Digital Infrastructure
- The Goodness, the Glory and the Goal of Creation - Dr. Christopher Wright, 2020 Acadia Divinity College Hayward Lectures
General Synod 2019 passes creation and climate related resolutions:
Single-Use Plastics | The Season of Creation | Climate Change
All things come of thee, O Lord, and of thine own have we given thee. (1 Chronicles 29)
Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture, that you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pasture? (Ezekiel 34:18)
The earth is created, sustained and redeemed by Christ. We cannot claim to love God while abusing what belongs to Christ by right of creation, redemption and inheritance. We care for the earth and responsibly use its abundant resources, not according to the rationale of the secular world, but for the Lord’s sake. If Jesus is Lord of all the earth, we cannot separate our relationship to Christ from how we act in relation to the earth. For to proclaim the gospel that says ‘Jesus is Lord’ is to proclaim the gospel that includes the earth, since Christ’s Lordship is over all creation. Creation care is thus a gospel issue within the Lordship of Christ.
- Cape Town Commitment (Third Lausanne Congress, 2010)
