items of interest

with contributions from Norman Wirzba, Jim Remsen, Margaret Feinberg, Edward Gilbreath

"Unless one is prepared to call God a careless creator, one has to argue that there is no part of creation that is useless or superfluous. ... [I]nterdependence, even if its nature is not fully understood, is the law of life. We live not from ourselves but from a natural world that sustains us. ... In our haste to assign value to the world of nature so as to maximally exploit it ..., we have foolishly ignored the fact that what we are up against is ... God's grace at work."

Norman Wirzba
"Caring and working:
An agrairian perspective"
Christian Century
September 22-29,1999

"... Racism is a sin ... against creation. Look at Genesis 1. We are created in His image. You say someone is less than you, you are saying he is not an image bearer of God. You're saying God made a mistake," says Debra Ortiz-Vasquez, an evangelical Christian who works with other Christians to battle racism.

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