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Evangelical Christians are waking up late to the place that caring for God’s creation ought to have in the practice of our faith.

In spite of our firm belief that God made the world, and that his Creation reveals his glory and majesty, we have done little to care for that world, and we have often been found among those actively opposing efforts to do so. This has many outside of evangelical circles scratching their heads.

Essayist Wendell Berry says about Christians and the environment, “the people who might have been expected to care most selflessly for the world have had their minds turned elsewhere… [They] have abused the earth thoughtlessly, by inattention, and their negligence has permitted and encouraged others to abuse it deliberately. [Berry, The Art of the Common Place, p 22-23]

Ed Brown, author of Our Father’s World: Mobilizing the Church to Care for Creation, and Executive Director of Care of Creation Inc., believes that this situation represents a disconnect between what evangelicals believe and how they put those beliefs into practice: “The Church needs to change little to be effective in the environmental crisis. We have the beliefs, we have the people, we have programs in place. We don’t need to invent anything – we simply need to go to work…” (p. 9)