My E-Mail

If anyone cares, this is the e-mail I sent to the NOW Dist. office:

Hi,
I am writing to express my disappointment with the Northwest District’s endorsement of Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth. Clearly, Christians are required to be stewards of God’s good creation, but the exact and detailed form of that stewardship is not spelled out for us in the Scriptures. While conservation of energy, recycling, etc., are possible ways of being stewards, global warming is a controversial concept that often seems to have more to do with the politics of a certain segment of our culture and a certain political party. (Some websites that dispute the current publicity of global warming are these: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-329es.html, http://www.globalwarming.org/, http://www.worldclimatereport.com/, and http://www.skepticism.net/faq/environment/global_warming/index.html.) Identifying the showing of An Inconvenient Truth (which I have not seen, so I am not commenting on its actual contents) as an important way to be a good steward runs the risk of
identifying the Northwest District with the Democratic Party–especially since Al Gore is not likely to be identified as an Independent or a Republican. Please note that I am not arguing one way or another on the actuality of global warming, but the point is that the concept is controversial and that Christians can be expected to reasonably disagree in good conscience. The Northwest District’s support of the film implicitly suggests that congregations that care about the environment will show the film and support its conclusions.

Please reconsider supporting this film, which support has politically partisan implications, and perhaps, instead, giving links to a number of different resources by which one might act in good stewardship of God’s good creation.

Thank you for your time,
[Timotheos]
St. Louis, MO

Maine, Here I Come

I have never been to the state of Maine. I am going there tomorrow. I will likely not have internet access. I will return. Stay tuned…

Timotheos

[Post #1000!] What Are We Now…

…the ELCA or the Episcopalians? There’s no excuse for putting the weight of an official entity of the Missouri Synod behind public policy activity about which Christians can, in good conscience, disagree. It is not that Christians can disagree about being good stewards of the environment. Indeed, such stewardship is required of us by the first article of the Creed. However, what form that stewardship takes is not spelled out in the Scriptures in extensive detail.

It is ridiculous to suggest that not supporting Al Gore (who is likely to take credit for coining the term “global warming”) makes one a worse steward of God’s good creation. This is seriously out of line. See, the Left can coopt religious groups!

[See project details here. I’m not sure if this or this is the national organization. The latter is linked on the NOW Dist. site.]

Timotheos