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You’re a Christian, so Speak Out Against the War in Iran, for the Sake of Everyone

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I write this op-ed as the Co-Founder of Bioearth, home of the One Billion for Peace pledge,  which defines sustainable peace as entailing "the physical, material, psychological, cultural/religious, and ecological wellbeing of all peoples" (www.bioearth.org). In 2023, the Presbyterian Church USA (the denomination of which Unbound is housed) became a

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EARTH DAY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Review of COP25

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Earth Day 2016 was chosen for many nations, including the United States, to sign the historic Paris Agreement, negotiated at the end of 2015, to address global climate change. This was the most comprehensive agreement since the Convention on Climate Change was signed at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

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Extinction

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I have been asked to reflect upon extinction. First, perhaps because I write during a terrifying global pandemic, my thoughts turn to the massive explosions triggered as comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up and slammed into Jupiter in 1994. Jupiter is but a speck in space…but so massive 1300

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Review: THE GREAT CONVERSATION: NATURE & THE CARE OF THE SOUL by Belden C. Lane ( New York: Oxford U Press, 2019)

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review by Nancy Corson Carter The dedication of this book, “For Grandfather—and Elizabeth,” is accompanied by an arresting photo titled “Belden and Elizabeth in Grandfather’s Side.” Thus we know the name of this winsome child, and surely the broadly smiling bearded man is the author, but who is the invisible

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A Plea for Fossil Fuel Divestment

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“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world…. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be

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Climate Action 100+: Amplifying MRTI’s Voice

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Editor’s Note: The editorial staff of Unbound, as well as the members of the Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy (ACSWP), are aware of massive energy in the church for taking a stand against fossil fuel pollution. One of the potentially most energetic debates coming before the 223rd General Assembly

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Environmental Issues at GA 223

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An Outline of Twelve Overtures. In 2018, business before the Environmental Issues Committee of the PC(USA) General Assembly includes: engagement with vs. divestment from fossil fuel polluters, environmental racism, carbon pricing, reducing the use of polystyrene, and adopting the “precautionary principle” toward new technologies and strains of genetically engineered crops

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