The ELCA and the Environment

©2010 by Morehouse education resources • all rights reserved • www. livingthegoodnews. coM • 1-800-242-1918 Winter A • 2010-2011 The ELCA addresses...

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©2010 by Morehouse education resources • all rights reserved • www. livingthegoodnews. coM • 1-800-242-1918 Winter A • 2010-2011 The ELCA addresses environmental concerns from a simple platform of caring for creation. As created beings of God, humans need to care for creation. Humans are caregivers of the world in which we... More

©2010 by Morehouse education resources • all rights reserved • www. livingthegoodnews. coM • 1-800-242-1918 Winter A • 2010-2011 The ELCA addresses environmental concerns from a simple platform of caring for creation. As created beings of God, humans need to care for creation. Humans are caregivers of the world in which we were created. Humans are connected to creation through God as proclaimed by scripture (see, for example, Genesis 1:31, Psalm 24:1, Psalm 104). God loves creation and as beloved siblings, creation and humans must love and care for one another. When human consumption is the main element of our relationship to creation, the result is devastating. We exchange the caring relationship God means for us to have with creation for a relationship of misuse, depletion or pollution. The ELCA uses information and education as the tools with which to repair the relationship of humans and creation. Through the hope given to us by God the ELCA seeks information and education Less

From Delinda collier