Amid polarized debate on climate change, Southern Baptists' lead ethicist has called conservative evangelicals and secular environmentalists to cooperate on issues of creation care.
"I could prompt a cascade of 'Amens' in a sermon -- or retweets on a Twitter feed -- by noting that our legal system protects darter snails but not unborn humans," Russell D. Moore wrote in the latest issue of the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. "A secular environmentalist could evoke cheers on 'The Daily Show' by lampooning conservative Christians for claiming to be 'pro-life' while ignoring toxins in the atmosphere that produce birth defects or spontaneous abortions. These are appeals to the conscience, but they are rarely a conversation from one conscience to the other so much as they are self-reinforcing 'red meat' (or, I guess, 'green leaf' as the case might be) for the already-convinced bases."
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