"A Baptist ethicist welcomed Pope Francis' upcoming encyclical
on the environment as “a hinge moment” not only for Catholics. “The environment needs to be at the heart of the Christian moral agenda, and it isn't,” Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics said in a June 10 editorial on EthicsDaily.com.
“Nonetheless, we frequently wonder if all of our words have made a difference,” he said. “Francis' words will make a difference because of the force of his authority, the scale of his organization and the scope of his media popularity. His words will wash over every other church body — even Baptists. For that, I'm grateful.” In 2006 Parham wrote an editorial describing the Bible as “God’s green book,” borrowing from the red-lettered Bible’s highlighting words of Jesus in the color red. In 2012 he praised the Baptist World Alliance for taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint created by travel to meetings around the world. In 2007 EthicsDaily.com named former Vice President Al Gore as its Baptist of the Year for raising awareness about global warming through his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. When Gore gave a presentation on climate change at the first New Baptist Covenant Celebration in 2008 in Atlanta, Parham introduced him and presented him with a green-covered Bible symbolizing the scriptural mandate for creation care." BNG
...and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
Romans 1:25
“Nonetheless, we frequently wonder if all of our words have made a difference,” he said. “Francis' words will make a difference because of the force of his authority, the scale of his organization and the scope of his media popularity. His words will wash over every other church body — even Baptists. For that, I'm grateful.” In 2006 Parham wrote an editorial describing the Bible as “God’s green book,” borrowing from the red-lettered Bible’s highlighting words of Jesus in the color red. In 2012 he praised the Baptist World Alliance for taking steps to reduce its carbon footprint created by travel to meetings around the world. In 2007 EthicsDaily.com named former Vice President Al Gore as its Baptist of the Year for raising awareness about global warming through his 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth. When Gore gave a presentation on climate change at the first New Baptist Covenant Celebration in 2008 in Atlanta, Parham introduced him and presented him with a green-covered Bible symbolizing the scriptural mandate for creation care." BNG
...and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
Romans 1:25
