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Friday, August 21, 2009

Christian Ecology Link prayer topic for today

Biochar is a soil management strategy for making nutrient-poor soils more fertile while turning them into stable carbon sinks. A pilot project in Cameroon involves 75 groups of subsistence farmers producing char from palm fronds, cassava stems and three types of wood. Six weeks into the project, the maize in the char plots has already begun to tassel despite erratic rains, while plants in the control plots are barely past the 8-leaf stage. The Biochar Fund and Key Farmers Cameroon are now studying whether the use of biochar can help solve food insecurity, soil depletion, energy poverty and help slow the rate of deforestation. Website: www.biocharcameroon.org

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Important Lessons from the Bible

Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17

Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19

Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15

The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability

1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.

2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).

3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).

4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)

5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).

Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+