You may have seen it on the PCUSA’s web site: “Preach-In on Global Climate Change“. (“Let’s have a ‘preach-in’! It’ll be just like the 60s!”) There we’re told:
Interfaith Power and Light is hosting a national preach-in on global warming on Sunday February 12th. Planned to communicate a love for, and dedication to, God’s creation as Valentine’s Day approaches, this preach-in invites people of all religions to consider preaching, teaching, praying, and otherwise bringing awareness about climate change.
Here’s the flyer calling all environmental religion people to arms, er, mouths, er, whatever:
I will not be registering for this august event, so I won’t get any of the fact-free downloadable resources, or any of the “sample sermons” that I could pass off as my own use as models for my own. But then, I also won’t be promoting a new religion in my pulpit on February 12, either.
January 20, 2012 at 10:59 am
You know how “progressive” Christians are always elevating doubt to a virtue? How do you they they’d welcome doubts about catastrophic man-made global warming caused by the failures of catastrophic predictions (e.g., no major hurricanes in US since 2005, fewer severe tornadoes, growing glaciers) or the scientific data coming in showing no significant warming (and some cooling) over the past 13 years? Do the teaching materials include the latest 33 year satellite records of lower atmospheric temps? Doubt it. Oops. There’s that word.
January 20, 2012 at 11:00 am
Whoops: “How do you think….” Excuse the typos.
January 20, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Love the stained glass window graphic with a windmill instead of a cross!
January 21, 2012 at 2:24 pm
This post raises the question about the nature of preaching. What is the purpose of preaching? Should we as reformed Christians have preaching on a “right to life Sunday”. I understand that there are groups of reformed pastors that prefer not to have specialized preaching on Easter and Christmas, but prefer to systematically go through the word and not let special events interrupt the normal preaching of the word. Of course, the example here illustrates that in the PCUSA a preach-in of the actual gospel would be something unusual. Of that, the state of the PCUSA and the so-called preaching that goes on in most of their pulpits, there is no real debate amongst those of us who are “evangelical” in our theology and reformed in doctrine and practice. The stained glass windmill, as Rich has noted, emphasizes that point. I’m sure this would be a great set of sermons to honor Abraham Lincoln as well on his birthday.
If this will be just like the 60′s, will the pastors be invited to wear their hair long and wear bell-bottomed jeans as well? That would be almost emergent!