The Simple Pastor

Tim Challies had an interesting piece reflecting on how history may look back on this part of church history. He reflects on three areas which he considers blindspots – abortion, creation care and slavery. This is interesting because it’s not the thing you’d normally expect to hear from Tim Challies (well not the second two [...]

I had quite a few comments about my comment that Wayne Grudem is wrong on climate change both on the blog and on facebook. As Copenhagen summit is taking place this issue continues to exercise the mind. Here’s a round-up of a variety of blog posts from all sorts of angles: Climate change art is [...]

A while ago I read my friend Dave’s account of the impact of a talk I gave, and he listed the questions I posed that night, I’ve turned those questions into a series of posts which I’ve now finished. Here’s the complete set Questions of life What about the consumer dream? What about the environment? [...]

I knew a good electric motorbike had to happen sooner or later. Thank the Lord for Mission Motors. All I need now is $68,995.

Just a few links for you to keep the issue of the environment on your radar Jeremy’s review of The Long Emergency Has Peter Doodes become a cyber terrorist? Matthew Sleeth on a broken promise is thought provoking No Impact Man thinks about Tolstoy and progress And over at Illuminate Christian Books I’m thinking through [...]

This earnest, sombre plea for the oceans is heartfelt and stirring and as the lady says ‘no blue, no green’ which translates to forget the oceans and you can forget life on land. So take 18 minutes of your time and wonder whether the description of the teeming oceans that God in Genesis still apply.

According to New Scientist “A growing band of experts are looking at figures like these and arguing that personal carbon virtue and collective environmentalism are futile as long as our economic system is built on the assumption of growth. The science tells us that if we are serious about saving Earth, we must reshape our [...]

Environmentalism is the new religion. What do you think? HT: Tim Challies

One of the best known Christian bloggers is Canadian Tim Challies, his blog is well worth reading even if only to see what makes a great blog. Tim devours books in a way that I devour my wife’s chocolate biscuits. Anyway he’s been reading recently on the issues relating to the environment.His book reviews are [...]

I recently came back from Newday. Worshipping with 6000 teenagers is good for your soul, but not your voice. Anyway, while there with our youth group, I also gave a seminar called Green God. You can read my talk here and (audio here). Thanks to Matt Hosier for asking me. Do also listen to his [...]

I’ll link this to the Green God post, which will eventually have audio from my Newday talk and link to my Newday notes, which dealt with this question. So please read that post. However, here’s the driving question and issue for me: we are stewards and caretakers of the earth. It’s the height of arrogance [...]

I’m gorging myself on telly watching at the moment mostly due to the Olympics. However two programmes I watched tonight were very instructive. Firstly, Panorama which told the tale of the millions of tonnes of rubbish that Britons simply throw out of the windows of their cars, drop onto the streets, dump into the countryside [...]