Earth is the Lord’s Day

So what’s your take on Earth Day?  I hope you don’t roll your eyes from too much ear-time with a.m. (angry man) radio.  Because the Earth is the Lord’s.  Creation is his first revelation, the first language he speaks to us.   And the church in the United States has been spiritually dull to his voice speaking through creation.  To the extent that we are, we’re spiritually dull.
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richard cizik and the boundaries of the reservation revealed

My friend Rich Cizik, a prominent leader of the National Association of Evangelicals resigned recently after the proverbial firestorm of protest.   He candidly answered some questions posed by Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air.“  Cizik revealed the following things about his personal views when asked: that civil unions in his view are OK, that it might be wise for the government to offer contraceptives to those who can’t afford them in order to reduce the number of babies who are aborted rather than born, and that he voted for a Democratic candidate (Barak Obama) in the Democratic primary in his state.
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