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The Biblical Case for Conservation
From general revelation and the new creation to imagery in the Psalms, God has made clear the role humans are meant to play in the natural world both here and at Christ’s second coming: one of reflection, stewardship, and active participation in the “liturgy of the land.” “In the beginning God created the heavens and…
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Why I am a Conservationist, Part II
I am a conservationist, secondly, because I am a Christian. Upon the creation of man and woman, God declared that mankind shall “rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves over the ground” (Genesis 1:28). For all of recorded history, mankind has obliged…
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Why I am a Conservationist, Part I
I am a conservationist, foremostly, because I am a conservative. The two terms have in recent decades been viewed as antithetical, though one is clearly the root of the other. Conservatism, according to the loudest voices on both the left and right, is the philosophy of free trade, market economics, and global capitalism. While conservation,…
Thoughts of an Environmental Conservative 