To Care for Creation

About this book

Controversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, 'I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV'. The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism. Given how firmly entrenched this sentiment has been, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. This book chronicles this movement and explains how it has emerged despite institutional and cultural barriers, as well as the hurdles posed by logic and practices that set religious environmental organisations apart from the secular movement.