Last year in a little article, “Can Lutherans Observe Earth Day?” I asked if being theologically conservative required us to be politically conservative on social issues like the environment. After all, Luther’s recovery of the Gospel led him to revalue creation as our good home. This year, I’ve inquired into what some of our  schools [...]

My colleague, Tim Saleska, put me on to an op-ed in the New York Times regarding a ballot initiative that was passed by Californians to ban certain factory farm practices. In particular, it states that farm animals cannot be confined for their entire lives to cages in which they cannot move.
I’m glad that it passed. [...]

Sometimes I wonder if we conservative Christians have become what might be called second and third article Christians (that is we care only about the second & third articles of the Nicene Creed). In other words, we think of Jesus as the one who gets us to heaven with the result that we then regard [...]

We share a common origin with all other creatures. We share a common dependence upon God with all other creatures.  We do not, however, share a common responsibility with other creatures for ruining the garden home that God gave us. That is our responsibility alone as human creatures. And yet all other creatures bear the [...]

At first glance, a book on bird migration might sound pretty boring (ok…really boring). Was I pleasantly surprised! Several thoughts occurred to me as I read about these incredible creatures.
First, we often pass through life unaware of the wider creation. “At whatever moment you read these words, day or night, there are birds aloft in [...]