This year, Good Friday is also Earth Day. Should Christians care? After all, compared with the ancient traditions of Holy Week, Earth Day is a mere pup. Its shallow roots run back to a Christian peace activist and former Pentecostal pastor named John McConnell, Jr., who came up with the name and helped organize the first observance on March 21, 1970. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin soon took the name under questionable circumstances and established the April date and activist tone that have stuck ever since. Noteworthy as it was (millions participated), April 22, 1970 certainly was not a day that changed everything. Good Friday was.
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