'Between the flood and the rainbow'
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article33914
- Author
- Babbitt, Bruce
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Ministry Matters
- Date
- 1996 August
- Author
- Babbitt, Bruce
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Ministry Matters
- Date
- 1996 August
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- 22
- Notes
- "The following is excerpted from the keynote address last spring by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to the annual convention of the Associated Church Press, of which the Anglican Journal is a member. Mr. Babbitt's speech, entitled 'Leading America closer to the promise of God's covenant' was about the role that spirituality and church members can play in maintaining, or all too frequently, restoring the integrity of the environment -- God's creation. Though set in a U.S. context, the address, especially its conclusion, which is reprinted here below [not included in electronic database], contained enough practical advice by a seasoned civil servant to be of interest to Canadian church members".
- "Finally, we can remember that conservation did not begin as a partisan, or even a political issue. Nor did it begin on Earth Day. It began in the time between the flood and the rainbow, a time that begins with the break of each new day. You can help by asking your leaders, your congregations, and yourselves to transcend the narrow partisan differences, which can only drive us back towards destruction, and instead uphold our moral obligation as stewards of God's creation, which can only bring us closer to the hope and renewal that was and is the promise of His covenant".
- Subjects
- Ecology - United States
- Ecology - Religious aspects
- Ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Conservation of natural resources
- Location
- General Synod Archives