Mennonite Writings on Creation Care

Biblical Reflection: The Environment (html)

Excerpted from the Washington Office Environment Guide

Christianity and the Environment: A Collection of Writings (html)

  • Why I am an Environmentalist
  • The Care of Creation: A Christian Responsibility
  • Peacemaking and the Care of the Creation
  • Ten Scriptural Themes for Ecological Living
  • Are Christians Responsible for the Environmental Crisis?
  • Poverty and Environmental Degradation
  • Detrimental Effects of the International Debt Crisis
  • Environmental Deterioration Causing Declines in World Food Production
  • World Hunger as the 1990s Begin
  • U.S.-Banned Pesticides used in Third World, Consumed In U.S.
  • World Hunger 1990 -- Militarization a Primary Cause
  • Military Solutions no longer Relevant to World Problems
  • How Much Land does the U.S. Military Need?
  • Chernobyl: The Disaster Continues
  • Apartheid Causes Environmental Deterioration in South Africa
  • Facts that Substantiate the World's Widening Rich-Poor Gap
  • How Much Is Enough?
  • Lotteries, Wealth and the Second Law
  • Conservation and Renewable Energy: Keys to a Restored Earth
  • Ten Reasons to have a Garden this Spring
  • Is More Nuclear Power the Answer to the Threats of Global Warming?
  • Surface Mining of Coal has Produced a Massive Environmental Debt
  • Helpful Resources 
by Art Meyer
Creation and the Environment, An Anabaptist Perspective on a Sustainable World (html)

edited by Calvin W. Redekop, 2000

 

Creation Care from an Anabaptist Perspective (html)

Eastern Mennonite University President Swartzendruber, April 13, 2007

Creation, Christ, and the Classroom (html)
Mennonite University Faculty Conference Presentations
Demonstrating our Understanding and Commitment to Care of the Earth (pdf)

Selected Statements from the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995)

Lifestyle and Sustainability, Mennonite Church USA Delegate Assembly, San Jose 2007 (pdf)

by Anita Amstutz, Pastor, Albuquerque (N.M.) Mennonite Church and Luke Gascho, Executive Director, Merry Lea Environmental Learning Center of Goshen College

Mennonite Central Committee Washington Office Issues: Environment (html) (pdf)

Mennonite Central Committee Washington Office, Guide to the Environment

Genesis 1 Stewardship (pdf)

by Perry Yoder

Stewardship of The Earth Resolution on Environment And Faith Issues (html)

Mennonite Church General Board and General Conference Mennonite Church General Board, July 31, 1989

 

 

 

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