is god green?

god is amazing.

i missed seeing elizaberth may, leader of the national green party, speak in orillia tonight. but she was on tvo's The Agenda and you can watch this video clip of "Elizabeth May | Climate Change Conundrum" . may's environmentalism is scripture-based (she once considered becoming an anglican priest).

however, i did watch "Is God Green?" on Moyers on America on pbs. amazingly, the evangelical christian right in america, which helped put reagan and george w. bush in the oval office, is now finding a biblical basis for environmentalism and is beginning to vociferously oppose corporations harming the environment and politicians weakening environmental protection, while making concerted efforts to recycle and reduce and re-use in their communities, and plant more trees!.

you can/should/must watch the whole show online: "Is God Green?"

p.s.
it's kind of cool to watch a church service in boise idaho with a praise team and congregation and setting that looks kind of like my sister's church in niagara, ontario, singing songs sung there, and here at our church here in midland, ontario.

for the record, i'm one of those tree-hugging lefties that has come to christ, just as the evangelicals in this documentary are those bible-thumping christians that have come to care for god's creation. our politics still differ in many ways, but we have common ground in jesus, and god's word, and love for the creator and the creator's creation, and the purpose of that creation, which is to be a community to worship god in all our voices: human, lark, pine needle, fire, thunder, falling petal, the whole merry dance of neutrinos and gracefullness of gravity.

more amazingly, it was a secular friend who said to me, 'i don't know why. i never look at the pbs guide, but tonight i did, and i saw this show listed and thought you might like to watch it.' we watched it together.