The Climate Gospel

The Episcopal Church, and especially Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori, are currently focusing on global climate change and on condemning those who would question the science behind the doomsday claims. Bishop Jefferts Schori recently gave an interview with the Guardian on the subject of global climate change and gave the keynote address at the Climate Change Crisis forum at Campbell Hall Episcopal School in California. This forum was the kickoff for the Episcopal Church’s “30 Days of Action,” culminating on Earth Day, which will involve “a range of activities developed by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society… for individuals and congregations to understand the environmental crisis.” One of the Episcopal Church’s “Five Marks of Mission,” which purports both to explain the mission of the church and the mission of Christ, is “to strive to safeguard the integrity of creation and sustain and renew the life of the earth.”