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“Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.”
— Deuteronomy 10:14
This past Friday, an estimated four million people — many of them teenagers — partook in the largest global climate strike to date. Every generation has their battle, but we seem to have several: police brutality, women’s rights, immigration, and, of course, the ever-increasing climate catastrophe.
In an interview with the Washington Post before the strike last week, climate activist and scholar Bill McKibben begged clergy to be involved in the demonstration. McKibben’s writing is focused heavily on environmental issues, but his faith is a thread throughout his work (full disclosure: Bill was kind enough to endorse my book, Less of More). He urged pastors to consider the power of their office in connection to the climate crisis: “Ministers [are] out front in their collars, making it clear what a moral issue this is. … This is the dominant scientific and economic issue of our century. It’s also the dominant theological issue.”
A “dominant theological issue.”
I must admit, reading McKibben’s comment, I became quite sad. While morally he may be right, I’m not convinced creation care is “the dominant…
