Australian economist and theologian Jon Cornford’s latest book ‘Coming Back to Earth: Essays on Church, Climate Change, Cities, Agriculture and Eating’ is a wonderful resource and invitation for thinking deeply about personal and corporate ways of responding to critical issues of our time such as: “climate change; species extinction; resource depletion; pressure on the global food system; widening international tensions and conflicts; economic instability and fragility; persisting poverty and economic exploitation…” (p.9).
God has appointed us to be stewards of this earth, its water and land, its trees and flowers, its animals and birds. To work it and keep it. To observe and serve it. God created it and saw that it was good – what do you say that it is?
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