Green Letter Christians?
Brian McLaren promotes the "Green Bible". Why am I not shocked?I've got to say... this really annoys me.
With our society's fervent obsessive green frenzy, leave it to some savvy entrepreneur to come up with a Green Bible. Isn't it just like us, to take the latest social trends and stuff our version of God into it?
Take a look at some of the "devotionals" (I guess that's what you call them) or the articles, listed in this Bible:
• Forward, Archbishop Desmond Tutu
• The Power of a Green God, J. Matthew Sleeth, M.D.
• Reading the Bible Through a Green Lens, Calvin B. DeWitt
• Peace With God the Creator, Peace With All of Creation, Pope John Paul II
• Why I Am Green, Brian McLaren
• Creation Theology, A Jewish Perspective, Ellen Bernstein
• Learning Our Place On Earth: Learning Environmental Responsibility, Ellen F. Davis
• Jesus: Savior of the Earth, James Jones
• Jesus is Coming-Plant a Tree!, N.T. Wright
• The Dominion of Love, a Sermon by Barbara Brown Taylor
• Loving the Earth is Loving the Poor, Gordon Aeschliman
Just the titles gives me the willies.
Why doesn't someone come up with a "White Letter" version of the Bible which highlights the verses on Righteousness or Holiness? Oh yeah, I guess neither Righteousness nor Holiness has made the top 10 trendy list in the latest tabloid. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen.
I think it will be over for us as a human race when someone comes out of the closet with the "Rainbow Letter" version of the Bible.
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Here's something to read from a different point of view. A point of view we don't see very often:
Green Lies and Amazing Truths
posted by kennyo at 8:58 PM
3 Comments:
worship the earth
God is green
What a joke!
Brian ...do you really promote Christ of yourself?
I think Brian should just leave the public life and repent
I thumbed through this bizarre book at a Borders last week and it was just odd. The verses they had in green seemed really random - not really related to the theme of the book.
Example: "And he awoke and(C) rebuked the wind and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" And the wind ceased, and(D) there was a great calm" (Mark 4:39).
and
"Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed" (Mark 1:35).
Apparently, any time anyone was outside "in nature" it was considered a "green" verse. They were really digging. Not really proving their thesis that the Bible is full of verses supporting the modern environmental movement.
But the green letters were pretty!
Um... There are already Bibles out there highlighting the theme and passages on holiness.
I don't understand why you'd have a problem with a Bible that highlights God's creation and our responsibilities toward it.
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