Apr

Avoid This Observance!

by Jan Markell

What kind of theology could attract a half-billion people from 180 countries? Nearly every school in North America observes this day. Churches emphasize it all week. Some of you probably bow out of the hoopla one day each April, but tens of millions don’t. They insist on bowing down to “Mother Earth” on Earth Day.
 
Sen. Gaylord Nelson got this launched forty years ago, and you would think with that kind of long history, more would have figured out that church participation in the event is an outrage. In keeping with the tide of the 1960s, he first called it a “National Environmental Teach-In.”

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