In Their Words . . . Ben Lowe
June 20, 2008
This post originally appeared in Creation Care Magazine.
Everyone has heard of Al Gore’s recent film on global warming – An Inconvenient Truth. We would expect a movie on that issue to come from Gore. What may be more notable is that in January of last year, Dr. Duane Litfin, the President of Wheaton College, joined over 80 other senior evangelical leaders in signing the Evangelical Climate Initiative? Then, eight months later, over three hundred and fifty Wheaton students affirmed Dr. Litfin’s personal position by signing onto the student statement. I am one of those students.
I’m a senior at Wheaton College, and part of the group that helped gather the signatures on our campus and bring themto Washington, D.C., this past November. The purpose of this time in D.C. was to fellowship with other student leaders, release the student statement, and lobby our government towards action to curb global climate change.
And we did that. I had a meaningful time meeting with fellow students across the nation. We got to know each other and I heard many inspiring stories of campuses and administrations taking leadership in positively engaging creation care issues. These conversations have also helped motivate a follow-on meeting, the Wheaton Summit; a groundbreaking creation care summit in January, 2007, for student leaders to confer with each other and meet with renowned climate change expert Sir John Houghton.
I’m encouraged that as Christians, we are taking leadership in addressing daunting environmental challenges such as climate change, and I’m excited by the unique witness we have to offer the world. Al Gore calls global warming an “inconvenient truth.” Climate change fills the world with despair, driven by fear and desperation. With our eyes fixed on Jesus, we see the same issue with hope, driven by His love for us, and for all that he has created and cherishes.
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