ECOLOGY AND RELIGION: THE MENDING OF CREATION

For those interested, the Forum on Religion and Ecology is an inter-faith project (and website) which explores religious worldviews, texts, and ethics on ecology. The sheer amount of data is daunting. But then learning is a life work. They affirm, "religions need to be in dialogue with other disciplines (e.g. science, ethics, economics, education, public policy, gender) in seeking comprehensive solutions to both global and local environmental problems."

Another more pragmatic resource on ecology, ethics, and spirtuality is GreenFaith interfaith partners in action for the earth. There are some excellent folks involved in this organization in New Jersey.

I think participation in the mending of creation is part of the kairos in our chronos (divine movement in our historical moment) in spite of the forces of negation. Such moral agency is personal, pluralistic, pragmatic, global, and deeply spiritual. At its best it engenders a whole new way of being and discourse in relation to the groaning of creation.

"Theology is worrying about what God worries about when God gets up in the morning: the mending of creation." Krister Stendall