Welcome!
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
O
n behalf of the authors of the ecumenical “open letter” God’s Earth Is
Sacred, welcome to this opportunity to engage your congregation in
reading the letter and embodying its call.
We—a diverse group of...
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Welcome!
Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
O
n behalf of the authors of the ecumenical “open letter” God’s Earth Is
Sacred, welcome to this opportunity to engage your congregation in
reading the letter and embodying its call.
We—a diverse group of eleven clergy and lay theologians—wrote this letter with you and your congregation in mind.
At the invitation of the National
Council of Churches’ (NCC) Eco-Justice Working Group, we came together in
September 2004 at the National Cathedral (Washington D.
C.
) with a passion
for addressing one of the most harmful and insidious “false gospels” of our time:
the notion that care for God’s sacred, yet wounded, Earth should not concern
Christians.
We came together aware of the overwhelming evidence that this
false gospel had gained traction, whether by design or simply as a given within
the context of our consumer-oriented society, not only within the lives of individual Christians and congregations throughout our country, but also within
ou
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