Archive for the ‘Creation Care’ Category

A Killer in Captivity

The killer whale killing of this last Wednesday has received a lot press. Video footage of the trainer’s shocking death has gone viral, which hackers have used as a vehicle to spread actual viruses. This has aroused as much righteous indignation as the prurience which motivates millions of hits...
March 2nd, 2010 | Bioethics, Creation Care, Media | Read More

Everyday Justice and Lent

“Welcome, dear feast of Lent!” George Herbert, English country priest and poet wrote in Lent (1633). Last week, the western church entered the season of solemn preparation to remember Christ’s great sacrifice and victory over sin and death, and in a short while our eastern brothers and sisters...
February 23rd, 2010 | Book Reviews, Creation Care, Human Rights, Other, Religion, Social Justice | Read More

Global Warming: Facts, Fiction, and Freedom

Global warming might be real, but that doesn’t mean you have to do anything about it.  In fact, if your actions are motivated by guilt or fear, Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley would rather you didn’t act at all. Hayhoe and Farley are the authors of A Climate For Change: Global Warming...
January 25th, 2010 | Book Reviews, Creation Care, Culture, Media, Science | Read More

Provision and Progress

Michael Pollan is a rising star in the world of food. His recent book, In Defense of Food, was reviewed on Evangelical Outpost not long ago, he appears in a film now in theaters, and in a soon-to-air PBS documentary. He’s garnered attention on speaking tours and in a variety of articles, including...
November 10th, 2009 | Creation Care, Culture, Media | Read More

In Defense of Darkness

It is no real surprise that one of the primary metaphors in Scripture for the dominion of sin and evil ruled over by Satan is that of Darkness. We are diurnal creatures, light-loving and day-inhabiting. We have colloquially marked the development of culture by harnessing fire, defining anthropological...
October 6th, 2009 | Creation Care, Culture, Technology | Read More

PETA: People For the Ethical Treatment of Themselves

Remember when PETA was just a weird fringe group?   They’re still a weird group, but thanks to the increasing popularity of the animal rights movement, PETA is now much more mainstream.  And they’re very wealthy. So wealthy, in fact, that they’ve managed to not only thrive but expand...
September 1st, 2009 | Creation Care, Culture | Read More

In Defense of Butter

Julia Child is out to kill us all. That’s the conventional wisdom in America, at least. French food with its rich cheeses, its fatty creams, and above all its pounds upon pounds of butter must be the most decadently unhealthy cuisine on earth. The problem with that theory, however, is that the French...
August 28th, 2009 | Book Reviews, Conservative/Liberal, Creation Care, Science | Read More

BPA: One less thing to worry about

Fear sells.  No one knows this better than advertisers, whose aggressive marketing content is unconsciously absorbed by millions of consumers who don’t – or can’t – think critically about what advertisers tell them. That’s why it’s such a shame when advertisers and...
July 27th, 2009 | Creation Care, Culture, Family Issues, Other | Read More

Sub-Standard Ethics

It’s really remarkable how much we rely on medicine these days. Never before in history have so many people relied on so many different medications; in fact, it’s estimated that nearly half of all Americans take at least one prescription drug. This statistic becomes even more alarming when...
January 29th, 2009 | Creation Care, Foreign Affairs, Science | Read More

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck…

… and how long before the Sierra Club stages a protest? A group of environmentalists was appalled to find evidence of an illegal logging operation in a Polish nature reserve this fall. When the activists discovered a neat stack of twenty tree trunks they quickly alerted the police – hoping,...
December 12th, 2008 | Creation Care, Economics & Law, Intelligent Design | Read More