David Gibson writes:
[A]s the slick spre ads
and the toll mounts and hopes for a quick solution fade, a number of other Christian conservatives, notably evangelicals who have in the p ast taken a largely laissez-faire approach to environmental protection, are seeing the dis
aster as a moral challenge to their own free-market dogmatism and are even repenting of their previous positions.
Too bad it’s taken so long.
They’ve definitely been missing one of the central tenets
of Jesus–and the prophets–who call us to be good shepherds, not destroyers, of creation.